Staryj Sambir

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Staryj Sambir
Старий Самбір
Coat of arms of Staryj Sambir
Staryj Sambir (Ukraine)
Staryj Sambir
Staryj Sambir
Basic data
Oblast : Lviv Oblast
Rajon : Staryj Sambir district
Height : 360 m
Area : 14.50 km²
Residents : 5,603 (2004)
Population density : 386 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 82000
Area code : +380 3238
Geographic location : 49 ° 26 '  N , 23 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '5 "  N , 22 ° 59' 50"  E
KOATUU : 4625110100
Administrative structure : 1 city
Mayor : Ivan Hrys
Address: вул. Л. Галицького 35
82000 м. Старий Самбір
Statistical information
Staryj Sambir (Lviv Oblast)
Staryj Sambir
Staryj Sambir
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Staryj Sambir (Ukrainian Старий Самбір ; Russian Старый Самбор / Stary Sambor , Polish Stary Sambor - until 1899 Staremiasto or Stare Miasto ) is a Rajon capital in western Ukraine about 84 kilometers southwest of the Oblast capital Lemberg on the river Dnister .

View of the main square in the village

The border with Poland is about 20 kilometers to the south-west, the place itself is at the foot of the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains .

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1199, after the Mongol invasion in 1241, many residents left the devastated settlement and founded Sambor again in another place, the old settlement was consequently renamed Old Sambor (Staryj Sambir). In 1553 the place received town charter, the town developed as a handicraft and trading town and was in the Austrian Galicia until 1918 , where it was the seat of the district authority Stary Sambor from 1850 . In 1837 he was hit by a severe earthquake, on November 19, 1904, a train station was opened on the railway line from Lviv to Budapest ( Lviv – Sambir – Chop railway ), which favored economic development. In 1867 the place became the seat of a district court, together with the district authority, this existed until 1918. After the end of the First World War, the place came to Poland and was here from 1921 in the Lviv Voivodeship . During the Second World War it was briefly occupied by the Soviet Union and then by Germany until 1944 . After the end of the war, the city was added to the Soviet Union , and since 1991 it has been part of today's Ukraine .

In the 1890s, the two previously independent villages Posada Dolna / Posada Niżna (Ukrainian Посада Долішня / Possada Dolischnja ) and Posada Górna / Posada Wyżna (Ukrainian Посада Горішня / Possada Horischnja became independent in the 1930s) Smolnica (Ukrainian Smilnyzja / Смільниця) incorporated, it was located north of the city center and is still recognizable as a district today.

Web links

Commons : Staryj Sambir  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landesgesetzblatt Galizien, year 1899, no. 115 "Announcement of the Imperial and Royal Lieutenants regarding the change of the name of the city of Stare miasto to 'Stary Sambor'"
  2. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt of October 8, 1850, No. 383, page 1741