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Village in Cherkasy, Ukraine

Biloziria Білозір'я
Village
Transfiguration Church of 1754
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Coordinates: 49°18′19″N 31°53′32″E / 49.30528°N 31.89222°E / 49.30528; 31.89222
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Cherkasy
Raion	Cherkasy
Population
• Total	8,506
Website	Ukrainian Parliament website

Biloziria (Ukrainian: Білозір'я) is a big village (selo) in central Ukraine. It is located in Cherkasy Raion (district) of Cherkasy Oblast (province) 20 km (12 mi) southwest from the city of Cherkasy. It hosts the administration of Biloziria rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1]

The village is mentioned as a town in the "Tales about populated localities of Kyiv Governorate" of 1864 by Lavrentiy Polkhylevych and the fact that existed before 1710.

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:[2]

a Those who did not indicate their native language or indicated a language that was native to less than 1% of the local population.

• (in Ukrainian) (1972). Історіа міст і сіл Української CCP – Черкаська область (The History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR – Cherkasy Oblast), Kyiv.

1. ^ "Білозірська територіальна громада" (in Ukrainian). decentralization.gov.ua.
2. ^ "Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України" (in Ukrainian).

• "Białozierze". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 1. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1880. p. 197.
• "Białozierze, miasteczko nad jeziorem Białem". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). p. 131.

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49°18′19″N 31°53′32″E / 49.30528°N 31.89222°E / 49.30528; 31.89222