Kosiv (Ukrainian: Косiв, Polish: Kosów, Romanian: Cosău) is a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Kosivsky Raion (district).
Initially a small Hutsul settlement with a remnants of a small castle destroyed by the Turks. It was founded at Rybnica River. After the Great War the area returned to Poland and was turned into a powiat seat within the Stanisławów Voivodship. As a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the region was incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1939.
Ukraine (Ukrainian: Україна, transliterated: Ukrayina) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south. The city of Kiev (Kyiv) is both the capital and the largest city of Ukraine.
Initially a small Hutsul settlement with a remnants of a small castle destroyed by the Turks. It was founded at Rybnica River. After the Great War the area returned to Poland and was turned into a powiat seat within the Stanisławów Voivodship. As a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the region was incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1939. 
