Dovzhanka () is a village in Pidhorodnie rural hromada, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.

History The first written mention of the village was in 1464.

Religion St. John the Baptist church (1795, brick, restored in 1996).

Notable residents Sofia Okunevska (1865–1926), Ukrainian physician, educator, feminist, and scholar. She was the first female Doctor of Medicine and the first female physician in Austria-Hungary.

In the village, Petro Bilynskyi (1893–1896) and Ostap Nyzhankivskyi (1896–1897) pastored.

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