Zvenyhorod (Pustomyty)
| Zvenyhorod | |||
| Звенигород | |||
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| Oblast : | Lviv Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Pustomyty Raion | ||
| Height : | no information | ||
| Area : | 2.476 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1,156 (01/01/2001) | ||
| Population density : | 467 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 81156 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3230 | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 44 ' N , 24 ° 16' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 4623683101 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 5 villages | ||
| Address: | 81156 с. Звенигород | ||
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Swenyhorod , also Swenyhorod Halyzkyj ( Ukrainian Звенигород ; Russian Звенигород Zvenigorod , Polish Dźwinogród ) is a Ukrainian village in Lviv Oblast in Pustomyty Raion with about 1000 inhabitants. The Rajon capital Pustomyty is about 33 kilometers west and the Oblast capital Lviv 21 kilometers northwest of the village.
For the same district municipality Zvenyhorod includes the villages Scholomyn ( Шоломинь ) Hryniw ( Гринів ) Widnyky ( Відники ) and Kozuriw ( Коцурів ).
In the 11th and 12th centuries Zvenyhorod was the center of the principality Zvenigorod .
history
A fortified castle complex had existed in Zvenyhorod by the 11th century at the latest . First mentioned in 1087, the castle Zvenigorod , as Jaropolk Isjaslawitsch after returning from Poland before Zvenigorod falls. At that time it was the center of its own principality.
In 1141 it became part of a new united principality Halitsch . In 1239 it was destroyed by the Golden Horde . Svenigorod lost its importance, especially to the newly formed Lemberg . In 1340, like the rest of the country, it became part of the Kingdom of Poland and since 1434 it belonged to the Lviv Land in the Ruthenian Voivodeship . In 1772 the Austrian Empire came into being in Galicia . From 1919 it belonged to the Second Polish Republic (in the province Lviv , Powiat Bóbrka, Gmina Podhorodyszcze), in September 1939 it was used by the Soviet Union occupied, then in the summer of 1941 by Germany, in 1944 by the Red Army recaptured in the Ukrainian SSR incorporated , since 1991 it is part of Ukraine .
Attractions
In Zvenyhorod a site from the Neolithic Age , remains of the medieval ramparts, remains of a fortified path from the 12th century and the foundations of a stone church from the 13th century were found.
Three Old Russian texts on birch bark from the 12th century have been found here. They are the only ones of their kind in Ukraine.
The castle was built in 1716–1718 by the grand hetman of the Polish crown Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski .
Web links
- Dźwinogród . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 2 : Derenek – Gżack . Sulimierskiego and Walewskiego, Warsaw 1881, p. 311 (Polish, edu.pl ).
- History of Zvenyhorod (Ukrainian)
- Звенигородський замок Tvenyhorod Castle (Russian)
Remarks
- ↑ … пріиде Ӕрополкъ из Лѧховъ…… ї пересѣдивъ мало дн҃ѣи. їде къ Звенигороду ... ( Hypatiuschronik ), also Nestorchronik to 1086 after the Laurentius Chronicle
- ↑ At the Polish-Ukrainian war 19918/19 participated a hundred of Zvenigorod in the Imperial and Royal Landwehr Infantry Regiment Kolomea 36
- ↑ Text 1 , 2 , 3
- ↑ Zwenyhorod Castle (Russian)