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Council of State Secretaries was established.
S. Holubovych headed it. The reorganization
of state and government structures was
finished.
January, 7 Czechoslovakia, having the permission of
1919 Entente countries, occupied the western part
of Transcarpathia including Uzhhorod.
January, 21 Nationwide meeting of “Hungarian
1919 Ukrainians” in Khust. They resolved to join
UPR.
January, 22 The Unification Act of WUPR and UPR.
1919
January, 23 The uprising of Khotyn’ against Romanian
1919 occupation of Bessarabia. Romanian troops
suppressed the uprising. The part of rebels
crossed the Dniester river to the territory of
Ukraine.
February, 13 The law “About Fundamentals of School”
1919 proclaimed schools to be state establishments;
teachers were considered officers of state. It
was allowed opening private schools; the
Ukrainian language became primary in state
schools; national minorities, Poles and Jews,
had the right “to get schooling in their native
language”.
February, 14 By a special law Ukrainian private
1919 gymnasiums were nationalized in Dolyna,
Horodenka, Rohatyn, Chortkiv and Yavoriv.
Training colleges for girls were nationalized
in Kolomyia, Lviv and Ternopil’. 20
gymnasiums, 30 secondary schools, 3 real
gymnasiums, 7 teaching seminaries for boys
and girls.

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