Scalat

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Scalat
Скалат
Coat of arms of Skalat
Skalat (Ukraine)
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Basic data
Oblast : Ternopil Oblast
Rajon : Pidvolochysk Raion
Height : 313 m
Area : 5.73 km²
Residents : 4,025 (2015)
Population density : 702 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 48851
Area code : +380 3543
Geographic location : 49 ° 26 '  N , 25 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 25 '30 "  N , 25 ° 58' 30"  E
KOATUU : 6124610500
Administrative structure : 1 city, 15 villages
Mayor : Natalija Stankowska
Address: Грушевського 2
47851 м. Скалат
Statistical information
Skalat (Ternopil Oblast)
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Skalat (Ukrainian and Russian Скалат ; Polish Skałat ) is a city in western Ukraine , about 17 kilometers southwest of the district capital Pidvolochysk and 32 km northeast of the oblast capital Ternopil .

Church in Skalat

The western village of Poplawy was also part of the city council until 2015 . On July 14, 2015, the city became the center of the newly founded municipality of Skalat (Скалатська міська громада / Skalatska miska hromada ). At that includes also the 15 villages Choptjanka (Хоптянка) Horodnyzja (Городниця) Kolodijiwka (Колодіївка) Krywe (Криве) Mahdaliwka (Магдалівка) Mytnyzja (Митниця) Nowosilka (Новосілка) Ostapje (Остап'є) Panassiwka (Панасівка) Podillja (Поділля) Polupaniwka (Полупанівка) Popławy (Поплави) Sarubynzi (Зарубинці) Staryj Skalat (Старий Скалат) and Tekliwka (Теклівка).

history

Tower of the Skalater Castle

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1512, in 1600 it was given by Sigismund III. Wasa granted Magdeburg town charter and then belonged to the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania in the Ruthenian Voivodeship until 1772 . With the partitions of Poland , the place fell to the Austrian Galicia , but between 1809 and 1815, like the entire Tarnopol district , had to be ceded to Russia .

The town, then mainly inhabited by Ukrainians , came back to the Austrian Empire after the Congress of Vienna , from 1850 to 1918 it was the seat of the District Commission Skałat , together with the District Court established in 1867, it existed until 1918.

In the period that followed, a large Jewish community developed in Skalat; this part of the approximately 4600 inhabitants in 1941 was completely murdered or expelled in the Second World War .

In 1897, with the construction of the local railway Borki Wielkie – Grzymałów , Skalat got a connection to the railway network. 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 the newly founded Poland .

From 1919 to 1939 Skalat belonged to Poland and from 1921 to 1939 it was part of the Tarnopol Voivodeship . Skalat was occupied by the Soviet Union during World War II in 1939/41 and then by Germany until 1944 .

After the end of the war, the city was added to the Soviet Union, the city became part of the Ukrainian SSR and has belonged to Ukraine since 1991.

The castle, built in the 17th century, with its four striking fortification towers , similar to a fort castle, is particularly worth seeing .

The city arms between 1921 and 1939

Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Відповідно до Закону України "Про добровільне об'єднання територіальних громад" уко іновісльско іномад "ко іновісльско іномад" ко іновісльско іновісльско іновісльско іномад "ко іномад" ко іновісльско іновісльско інорносльско іносльско іноч ьско ілурносльско інорносльско інорносльско імісв
  2. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt of October 8, 1850, No. 383, page 1741