Zavaliv

Old coat of arms of Zavaliv

For the village in Poland, see Zawalów.

Zavaliv (Ukrainian: Завалів) (formerly Polish: Zawałów) is a village (formerly a town) in the western part of Pidhaitsi Raion (district) of Ternopil Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. Until 1990 Zavaliv belonged to Berezhany Raion. The village is situated on the right bank of Zolota Lypa (stands for "Golden Lime Tree") river, 18 km away from the district center of Pidhaitsi.

Hamlet Kamiana Hora was united with the village. Due to the resettlement of people, hamlet Zamche was removed from the registration data.

Population of Zavaliv is 472 people
Founded in 1395
Telephone code is +380 3542
Postal code is 48023

History

In 1725 Zavaliv was granted Magdeburg rights. In the second half of the 19th century, there were 191 houses and 1285 inhabitants (698 Ukrainian Greek-Catholics, 587 mainly Polish (some Ukrainian) Roman Catholics, 12 Germans, 17 Jews and a few Armenians) in the village. Zavaliv had a stone-built Polish Roman Catholic church and Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker.

Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko visited the village during the Easter holiday of 1883 and a month later, he wrote an article about two remarkable icons of local St. Nicholas church.

Administrative divisions of Ternopil Oblast

Administrative center: Ternopil

Raions

Cities

Regional	Berezhany Chortkiv Kremenets Ternopil

District	Borshchiv Buchach Khorostkiv Kopychyntsi Lanivtsi Monastyryska Pidhaitsi Pochaiv Shumsk Skalat Terebovlia Zalishchyky Zbarazh Zboriv

Urban-type settlements
Category:Ternopil Oblast

Coordinates: 49°12′10″N 25°01′53″E / 49.20278°N 25.03139°E / 49.20278; 25.03139

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