The town has been ruled at various points by the Kingdom of
Poland, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austrian empire, the
Austro-Hungarian empire, the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria,
the Kingdom of Hungary, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union,
and is now part of the Lviv Oblast in Ukraine; as a result
Bibrka has several official and native names, including: Bóbrka
(Polish/Russian), Prachnik (German), and Boiberke/Boyberke
(Yiddish). The city has a population of 3,980. Bibrka was the
site of a Soviet prison and detention centre that detained Poles
and others in the mid-20th century. - (Polish) Bóbrka (Bibrka)
in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (1880) -
JewishGen ShtetLinks, Bóbrka by Bev Shulster. Retrieved 25 May
2006 - My Bibrka (Ukrainian), (Russian) |This article about a
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