Leshniv
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Leshniv is a village
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 (selo) in Brodivskyi Raion
Brodivskyi Raion
Brody Raion is a raion of the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Brody. It has a population of 23,239....

, 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...

, in western Ukraine
Ukraine
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From 1918 to 1939 the village was in Tarnopol Voivodeship
Tarnopol Voivodeship
Tarnopol Voivodeship was an administrative region of interwar Poland with an area of 16,500 km², 17 counties, and capital in Tarnopol...

 in Poland
Poland
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. It was established in 1471. In 1921 the village had 1472 inhabitants. It has two cemeteries, a church and a cafe. Its around 20 kilometers from Brody.
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