Turka
Turka, formerly known as Turka nad Stryiom is a city located at the confluence of the Stryi River and the Yablunka River in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine.
- Type: Town with 7,110 residents
- Description: city in Lviv Region, Ukraine
- Also known as: “Turka i Ukraina”, “Turka nad Stryjem”, “Turka, Ukraine”, “Turko”, and “טורקא”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Church of the Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas, Turka and Jewish cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yavora and Losynets.
Losynets
Village
Losynets is a village in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast, in south-west Ukraine. Losynets is situated 5 km southeast of Turka.
Nyzhnia Yablunka
Village
Nyzhnia Yablunka is a village in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast, in south-west Ukraine. Nyzhnia Yablunka is situated 6 km southwest of Turka.
Turka
- Categories: city in Ukraine and locality
- Location: Turkivska Terytorialna Hromada, Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast, Western Ukraine, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.15314° or 49° 9′ 11″ north
Longitude
23.03364° or 23° 2′ 1″ east
Population
7,110
Elevation
577 metres (1,893 feet)
Open location code
8GX5523M+7F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Turka” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Տուրկա”
- Basque: “Turka”
- Belarusian: “Турка (Львоўская вобласць)”
- Belarusian: “Турка”
- Catalan: “Turka”
- Cebuano: “Turka”
- Chechen: “Турка”
- Chinese: “图尔卡”
- Chinese: “圖爾卡”
- Crimean Tatar: “Turka”
- Czech: “Turka”
- Danish: “Turka”
- Eastern Mari: “Турка (Львов вел)”
- Eastern Mari: “Турка”
- Erzya: “Турка”
- Esperanto: “Turka”
- Estonian: “Turka”
- Finnish: “Turka”
- French: “Tourka”
- French: “Turka”
- Georgian: “ტურკა”
- German: “Turka”
- Hebrew: “טורקה”
- Hungarian: “Turka”
- Italian: “Turka”
- Korean: “투르카”
- Latvian: “Turka”
- Moksha: “Турка”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Turka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Turka”
- Norwegian: “Turka”
- Persian: “تورکا”
- Polish: “Turka”
- Portuguese: “Turka”
- Romanian: “Turka, Ucraina”
- Romanian: “Turka”
- Russian: “Турка”
- Silesian: “Turka (lymberski uobwůd)”
- Silesian: “Turka”
- Slovak: “Turka”
- Spanish: “Turka”
- Swedish: “Turka”
- Tatar: “Турка”
- Thai: “ตูร์กา”
- Turkish: “Turka, Ukrayna”
- Ukrainian: “Турка”
- Upper Sorbian: “Turka”
- Uzbek: “Turka, Ukraina”
- Uzbek: “Turka”
- Vietnamese: “Turka”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Horb and Likot.
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Highlights: Турківська міська рада and площа Ринок.
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