| LC control no. | no 97030491 |
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| Geographic heading | Turka (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Ukraine--Turka (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ) |
| Variant(s) | Turkah (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine) Turka, Ukraine |
| Found in | Turkivshchyna, 1993: p. 22 (Turka) LC PreMARC file (hdg.: Turka, Ukraine; usage: Turkah) Utel, Ukrainian localities and area codes, 1997 (Turka, Lviv [Ukraine]) Ukraïna: masshtab 1:500 000 [MAP], 1993 (Turka) Encyc. of Ukraine: v. 5, p. 318 (Turka, a town on the Stryi River and raion center in Lviv oblast. It was first mentioned in historical documents of 1431, and was granted the right of Magdeburg law in 1730 while it was under Polish rule. In 1772 Turka was annexed by Austria, and after WWI it was ceded to Poland. Since 1944 it has been part of the Ukrainian SSR) Atlas avtomobilʹnykh shli︠a︡khiv Ukraïny, 1997 p. 156 (Turka) Jewish shtetl seeker WWW, 11-12-97 (Turka, 49°09ʹN, 23°02ʹE; 555.2 km. WSW of Kiev; lists another Turka in Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ) GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 49°09ʹ00ʺN 023°02ʹ00ʺE) |
| Geographic area code | e-un--- |
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