Pidhajzi
Pidhajzi | ||
Підгайці | ||
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Oblast : | Ternopil Oblast | |
Rajon : | Pidhajzi district | |
Height : | no information | |
Area : | 3.14 km² | |
Residents : | 3,203 (2004) | |
Population density : | 1,020 inhabitants per km² | |
Postcodes : | 48005 | |
Area code : | +380 3542 | |
Geographic location : | 49 ° 17 ' N , 25 ° 8' E | |
KOATUU : | 6124810100 | |
Administrative structure : | 1 city | |
Mayor : | Dmytro Kolodnyzkyj | |
Address: | вул. Бережанська 8 48000 м. Підгайці |
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Pidhajzi ( Ukrainian Підгайці ; Russian Подгайцы Podgaizy , Polish Podhajce or until the 1870s Podhayce ) is a city located in western Ukraine in the Ternopil Oblast on the Koropez River .
history
Pidhaitsi were in 1539 by royal decree , the town charter after the Magdeburg rights granted at that time the city was in the province of Ruthenia within the aristocratic Republic of Poland .
Pidhajzi was the venue of two important battles between Poland-Lithuania and the Crimean Tatars in league with part of the Zaporozhian Cossacks .
- 6-16 October 1667 Battle of Podhajce (1667)
- 8th-9th September 1698 Battle of Podhajce (1698)
Since the first partition of Poland in 1772, Pidhajzi belonged to the " Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria ", which was part of the Habsburg-Austrian Empire (from 1804 Austrian Empire ). From 1867 it was part of Austria-Hungary . Since 1850 it has been the seat of the Podhajce District Commission , from 1867 also the seat of a district court.
After the collapse of the Danube Monarchy at the end of the First World War in November 1918, the city was briefly part of the West Ukrainian People's Republic . In the Polish-Ukrainian War , Poland occupied the last parts of the West Ukrainian People's Republic in July 1919. On November 21, 1919, the High Council of the Paris Peace Conference awarded Eastern Galicia to Poland.
Between 1919 and 1939, Pidhajzi was under Polish control and from 1921 to 1939 it was part of the Tarnopol Voivodeship . The city came under the Soviet sphere of influence in 1939 as part of the Hitler-Stalin Pact and was annexed by the Soviet Union and integrated into the Ukrainian SSR after the Soviet attack on Poland in September . Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Pidhajzi has belonged to the Republic of Ukraine.
Daughters and sons of the city
- Stanisław "Rewera" Potocki (1579–1667), Polish statesman and military leader
- Ignacy Potocki (1750–1809), Polish statesman and publicist
- Tadeusz Łomnicki (1927–1992), Polish actor
- Jan Łomnicki (1929–2002), Polish director
Attractions
- The new building of the Greek Catholic Church in the city center.
- The Uspenska Church of the Orthodox community, completed in 1653 .
- The ruins of the Roman Catholic Church built in 1634 .
- The ruins of the synagogue built in the middle of the 17th century .
- A well-preserved Jewish cemetery near the synagogue.
literature
- Podhajce , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , pp. 604f.
Web links
- Podhajce . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 8 : Perepiatycha – Pożajście . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1887, p. 384 (Polish, edu.pl ).
- A page about the history of Pidhajzi
- Photos by Pidhajzi (English) ( Memento from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )