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The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Jaworiw (disambiguation) .

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Яворів
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Basic data
Oblast :	Lviv Oblast
Rajon :	Javoriv Raion
Height :	229 m
Area :	23.35 km²
Residents :	13,285 (2004)
Population density :	569 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	81000
Area code :	+380 3259
Geographic location :	49 ° 57 '  N , 23 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '40 "  N , 23 ° 23' 22"  E
KOATUU :	4625581905
Administrative structure :	1 city
Mayor :	Vitaly Domashovets
Address:	вул. Львівська 15 81000 м. Яворів
Statistical information
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Jaworiw (Ukrainian Яворів ; Russian Яворов / Jaworow , Polish Jaworów ) is a Rajon capital in northern Galicia in what is now western Ukraine near the border with Poland .

Town hall building in place

geography

Jaworiw is located on the Schklo river . It belongs to the Lviv Oblast and is located about 50 km west of Lviv (Lemberg) . The nearly 400 km² military training area Jaworiw begins about ten kilometers northwest of the city .

history

Jaworiw was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1376 and was granted town charter in 1569. The city was the residence of the Polish King John III. Sobieski , but lost importance with the rise of Lviv to the capital of Galicia under the Habsburgs . The town charter was not granted again until 1939. Under Austrian rule from 1772 to 1918, the place was from 1850 the seat of the district administration Jaworów , in 1867 a district court was set up next to it. On November 14, 1903, the local line Lemberg (Kleparów) –Jaworów was extended to the place, but the line was given up again in the 1960s and replaced by a new building by Kamjanobrid . Until 1939 the place belonged to Poland and was here from 1921 in the Lviv Voivodeship . During the Second World War there was a large ghetto in town. Jaworiw belonged to Ukraine from 1939/45 .

Personalities

The Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Stefan Jaworski (1658–1722), the poet Ossyp Makowej (1867–1925) and the Bishop Wassyl Tutschapez (* 1967) were born in Jaworiw .

Web links

Commons : Jaworiw  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jaworów . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 3 : Haag – Kępy . Sulimierskiego and Walewskiego, Warsaw 1882, p. 519 (Polish, edu.pl ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt of October 8, 1850, No. 383, page 1741