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  DROHOBYCH - DROHOBYCZ - DROGOBYCH - DROGOBICH, information page on town in Western part of Ukraine (Ukraina /Ucraina). ...
Drohobych in Ukrainian, Drogobych in Russian and Drohobycz in Polish.
Drohobych was a hometown to Polish Jewish 19th century revolutionary painter Maurycy Gotlieb (1856-1879, whose painting "Jesus Preaching in the Temple" was a revolutionary piece because it no longer shows Jesus as an Italian or German, but as a Jew preaching to his fellow Hebrews).
Drohobych was also a cradle to Ukrainian astrologist, writer, doctor of Medicine and Philosophy of Bologna University Yuriy Drohobych (Kotermak, lived in 1450-1494), also known as Georgius de Drohobycz in Latin.
www.personal.ceu.hu /students/97/Roman_Zakharii/drohobych.htm   (775 words)

  
  Drohobych
Drohobych was 32,300 in 1931, 42,000 in 1959, and 56,000 in 1970.
trade changed the composition of Drohobych's population: in 1869, of the town's 16,880 inhabitants 28.7 percent were Ukrainian, 23.2 percent were Polish or Roman Catholic, and 47.7 percent were
Until 1939 Drohobych was a Ukrainian national and cultural center, with a Ukrainian
www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages\D\R\Drohobych.htm   (333 words)

  
 "Rescuing Drohobych - Forward.com"
Drohobych before the Holocaust was a thriving town, with a Jewish population of about 15,000 people, some 40% of the total population.
Schmer was born in 1925 in Drohobych to a family of carpenters.
A ghetto was established in Drohobych, and by the end of 1942 most of the town’s Jews were either killed or sent to Belzec death camp.
www.forward.com /articles/10981   (2214 words)

  
 Lviv Regional State Administration :: L'viv Region :: Structure of the ...
Drohobych is a city of regional subordination of L'viv region, district center.
Drohobych is one of the oldest cities in Ukraine.
Drohobych is an important railway and highway junction to L'viv, Stryi, Sambir, Truskavets, Boryslav, Stebnyk.
www.loda.gov.ua /eng/region/structure/drohobych/drohobych   (349 words)

  
 Drohobych Encyclopedia Information @ Karr.net (Karr Network)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Serving as the administrative center of the Drohobytskyi Raion (district), Drohobych itself is a city of oblast subordinance, thus being subject directly to the oblast authorities rather to the raion administration housed in the city itself.
On August 6, 1944, Drohobych was liberated from the Nazi occupation by the forces of the 4th Ukrainian front.
(Ukrainian) Drohobych in Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine database
216.92.11.22 /encyclopedia/Drohobych   (1115 words)

  
 Drohobych. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The major petroleum-refining center of the Boryslav oil field, it is linked by an oil pipeline with Boryslav and a natural gas pipeline with Dashava.
An old Ukrainian settlement, Drohobych belonged to Kievan Rus until the 14th cent., when it passed to Poland.
It was taken by Austria in 1772 but reverted to Poland in 1919; in 1939 it was included in Ukraine.
www.bartleby.com /65/dr/Drohobyc.html   (127 words)

  
 ANALYSIS: A painting, an artist and a case for restitution (07/22/01)
Yet officials at Yad Vashem maintain that they received clear approval in Drohobych for the removal of the painting; both from the office of the mayor, as well as from the owners of the home in which the painting was found.
Drohobych was home to several prominent artists besides Schulz, including the graphic artist Efraim Moses Lilien and the painter Maurycy Gottlieb, a student of Jan Matejko.
For their part, the fragments of the Schulz fresco have every reason to be returned to Drohobych, and I write this not only because of the symbolic value of the painting or of the artist himself, whose work embodies the brilliance, dismay - and I would argue, historical reality - of this part of Europe.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2001/290116.shtml   (1688 words)

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