Buchach (Ukraine)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
בוצ'ץ' (אוקראינה)
Name (Latin)
Buchach (Ukraine)
Name (Cyrilic)
Бучач (Україна)
Other forms of name
Buczacz (Ukraine)
nna Butshatsh (Ukraine)
Buszasz (Ukraine)
בוטשאטש (אוקראינה)
בעטשאָטש (אוקראינה)
בוצ'ץ (אוקראינה)
Coordinates
E0252400 E0252400 N0490500 N0490500 (geonames )
025.3344311 025.4182530 049.773070 049.492440 (gooearth )
Associated country
Ukraine
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 139656147
Wikidata: Q849109
Library of congress: n 88025429
Sources of Information
  • BGN per phone, 4/14/88(Buchach; ppl. in Ukraine; 49°05ʹN, 25°25ʹE; variant: Buczacz)
  • Gaz. U.S.S.R. (Buchach; variant: Buszasz; PPL. 49°04ʹN 25°24ʹE)
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 49°05ʹ00ʺN 025°24ʹ00ʺE)
  • Appleman-Jurman, A. Alicia, 1988:p. 3 (Buczacz)
  • BGN per phone, 4/14/88(Buchach; ppl. in Ukraine; 49p0s05ʹN, 25p0s25ʹE; variant: Buczacz)
  • LC database 03-10-00 (hdg.: Butshatsh)
  • Gaz. U.S.S.R. (Buchach; variant: Buszasz; PPL. 49p0s04ʹN 25p0s24ʹE)

Wikipedia description:

Buchach (Ukrainian: Бучач, IPA: [ˈbutʃɐtʃ] ; Polish: Buczacz; Yiddish: בעטשאָטש, romanized: Betshotsh; German: Butschatsch) is a city located on the Strypa River (a tributary of the Dniester) in Chortkiv Raion of Ternopil Oblast (province) of Western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Buchach urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Buchach rests 135 kilometres (84 miles) south-east of Lviv, in the historic region of Halychyna (Galicia). The city was located in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until the partitions, followed by the Habsburg monarchy (1772–1804), Austrian Empire (1804–1867), Austria-Hungary (1867–1918), West Ukrainian People's Republic (1918–1919), the Second Polish Republic (1919–1939), and the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (1939–1991). In 2022 the population was estimated to be 12,171 (2022 estimate).

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