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Zmiivka

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English

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The flag of Zmiivka (Kherson Obl.)

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Etymology

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From Ukrainian Змії́вка (Zmijívka). Compare Zmeyevka, Zmeyovka, Zmiyevka, and Zmiyovka.

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Zmiivka

  1. A village in Beryslav urban hromada, Beryslav Raion, Kherson Oblast, the Ukraine, founded in 1804 but incorporating an older settlement (Verbivka) founded in 1782.
    Synonym: Schlangendorf (former name, changed in the wake of the Second World War)
    Meronyms: Kostyrka, Mykhailivka, Verbivka (formerly seperate settlements, merged into Zmiivka following the transfer of two-and-a-half thousand Boiky to the area from land ceded by the Soviet Union to Poland in 1951)
  2. A village in Svatove urban hromada, Svatove Raion, Luhansk Oblast, the Ukraine, founded in 1954.
  3. The former name, from 1946 to 1991, of Kidosh (that village in Berehove urban hromada, Berehove Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, the Ukraine, first mentioned in 1332).

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