Dovhe, Zakarpattia Oblast
Dovhe
Довге | |
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 Coat of arms | |
  Dovhe Location in Zakarpattia Oblast  Dovhe Dovhe (Ukraine) | |
| Coordinates: 48°22′3″N 23°17′13″E / 48.36750°N 23.28694°E | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Oblast | Zakarpattia Oblast |
| Raion | Khust Raion |
| Hromada | Dovzhanska rural hromada |
| First mentioned | 1383 |
| Population (2001) | |
• Total | 6,790 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 90154 |
Dovhe[a] (Ukrainian: До́вге) is a village in the Dovzhanska rural hromada of the Khust Raion of Zakarpattia Oblast in Ukraine.[1]
Etymology
Between 1383 and 1404, the village is mentioned in written sources as Hossumezo (Ukrainian: Госсумезо; "Hozyowmezew" in the original)—from the Hungarian Hosszúmező, which translates to "long field". There are several written variations of the name Hosszúmező, the appearance of which is associated with the specifics of the old Hungarian orthography.[b] From 1404, the name Dolha, meaning "long" has been used. In some documents from 1463, the name Naghdolha or Nagh Dolha is used.[2]
History
The first written mention of the village was in 1383.[3]
On 19 July 2020, as a result of the administrative-territorial reform and liquidation of the Irshava Raion, the village became part of the Khust Raion.[4]
Geography
From the southeast, Dovhe is surrounded by the low Khust mountains, and from the west by the mountain massif Velykyi Dil. Both massifs lie within the Volcanic Range of the Eastern Carpathians. From the north and northeast, the village is bordered by the southern spurs of the Polonyna Borzhava Range.
The Borzhava river flows through Dovhe. The mountain nature of the flow is only in the upper part to the village of Dovhe, where it flows along a mountain V-shaped valley in a southerly direction.
Religion
- Calvinist church (rebuilt from a chapel in the 18th century),[3]
- Two Greek Catholic churches (1911; 2003),[3][5]
- Roman Catholic church (1990s).[3][5]
- Jewish cemetery
Monuments
- Stone castle was in operation (1460–1474; constructed by Ambrozii Dolhai with the permission of the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus),[3][5]
- Teleki palace with a rectangular defensive wall with loopholes (1774).[3][5]
Notable residents
- Vasyl Nimchuk (1933–2017), Ukrainian linguist, Doctor of Philology, professor, head of the Department of History and Grammar at the Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- Ivan Lednei (born 1959), former professional football midfielder and coach
- Yvonne Engelman (1927–2025), Australian Holocaust survivor
The village was visited by the poet Mariika Pidhirianka.[3]
References
- ^ "Довжанська територіальна громада". Децентралізація.
- ^ Bélay Vilmos. Máramaros megye társadalma és nemzetiségei. — Budapest, 1943. — 135. old.
- ^ a b c d e f g Німчук В. В. Довге // Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine / редкол.: В. А. Смолій та ін. ; Інститут історії України НАН України. — К. : Наукова думка, 2004. — Т. 2 : Г — Д. — 518 с. : іл. — ISBN 966-00-0405-2. — S. 425—426.
- ^ Постанова Верховної Ради України від 17 липня 2020 року No. 807-IX "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів"
- ^ a b c d Нитка, Василь. "Сім чудес Довгого". Голос України. 2021-01-26.
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