Sokal

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Coat of Arms

City hall in Sokal

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

Sokal (Ukrainian: Сокаль, translit. Sokal’, Polish: Sokal) is a city located on the banks of the Bug River in the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Sokal Raion (district), the city itself also ranks as a separate raion within the oblast.

[edit] History

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

As of 2001^[update] Sokal had an estimated population of around 21,700.

(Polish) 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.

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