This is an article about the city in Ukraine. For other uses, see Sokal (disambiguation)

Sokal (disambiguation)

- Places :* Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Sokal, an eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church- People :* Alan Sokal , U.S. physicist and mathematician, famous for the Sokal Affair...

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Romanization of Ukrainian

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 Sokal’) is a town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 located on the banks of the Bug River

Bug River

The Bug River is a left tributary of the Narew river flows from central Ukraine to the west, passing along the Ukraine-Polish and Polish-Belarusian border and into Poland, where it empties into the Narew river near Serock. The part between the lake and the Vistula River is sometimes referred to as...

 in the Lviv Oblast

Lviv Oblast

Lviv Oblast is an oblast in western Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Lviv.-History:The oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on December 4, 1939...

 of western Ukraine

Ukraine

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. Serving as the administrative center of the Sokal Raion

Sokal Raion

Sokal Raion is a raion in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Sokal. It has a population of 94 500.It was established in 1939.-External links:*...

 (district), the city itself also ranks as a separate raion

Raion

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 within the oblast

Oblast

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History

Sokal lay in Polish territory from 1918 to 1944. Its western part (the village of Zhvirka) remained in Poland between 1944 and 1951.

External links

Sokal in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (1890)

• Golos z-nad Bugu- Sokal District Council Publications. The newspaper was founded December 12, 1918.