Kosiv

Kosiv (Ukrainian Косів; Russian Косов / Kossow, Polish Kosów or Kosów Pokucki, Romanian Cosău ) is the river Rybnyzja ( Рибниця ) located a city located in western Ukraine, about 73 kilometers southeast of the Oblasthauptstadt Ivano -Frankivsk.

The town was first mentioned in writing in 1424, an attachment of the inhabited by the Hutsul city was destroyed by the Turks in 1654, she received officially received its town charter. It belonged from 1774 to 1918 for Austrian Galicia and was from 1854 to 1918 the seat of a district team. After the end of World War I he joined the Kosów to Poland and was here from 1921 in the province Stanislav. With the onset of World War II Kosiv was occupied only by the Soviet Union and from 1941 to 1944 from Germany.

1945, the city again came to the Soviet Union, where they became part of the Ukrainian SSR, since 1991 a part of today's Ukraine.

The place is known for one of the hottest thermal springs in Europe, this was made in the 19th century known by the physician Tarnawski.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Bogdana Matsotska (* 1989), Ukrainian Alpine Skiing - driver
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