Monastyryska

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Monastyryska
Монастириська
City
Dormition Church (former Assumption church) in Monastyryska
Dormition Church (former Assumption church) in Monastyryska
Flag of Monastyryska
Flag
Coat of arms of Monastyryska
Coat of arms
Country Ukraine
Province Ternopil Oblast
DistrictChortkiv Raion
Magdeburg rights1454
Area
 • Total14.7 km2 (5.7 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total5,551
 • Density380/km2 (980/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Monastyryska (Ukrainian: Монастириська; Polish: Monasterzyska) is a town in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. In 2001, the population was 6,344. The town is situated on the river Koropets, 15 km (9.32 mi) from Buchach, 140 km (86.99 mi) south east from Lviv, on the road between Ternopil or Berezhany and Ivano-Frankivsk. The river Koropets forms a wide lake. Monasteryska borders and on the east, on the south, and on the west, , and on the north. It hosts the administration of , one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Population: 5,551 (2020 est.)[2]

Its older name was Monastyryshche (Монастирище),[3] which gave rise to the Yiddish name Monastrishtsh.

Prior to the war in 1939, the town had 1741 Roman Catholics (Poles), 408 Greek-Catholics (Ukrainians) and 1,310 Jews. The local Roman Catholic church has existed since 1702.

History[]

Historical affiliations

Crown of the Kingdom of Poland 1454–1569
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569–1772
Habsburg Monarchy 1772–1804
 Austrian Empire 1804–1918
 Second Polish Republic ca. 1919–1945
  Soviet Union 1939–1941
  Nazi Germany 1941–1944 (occupation)
  Soviet Union 1944–1945
 Soviet Union 1945–1991
 Ukraine 1991–present

For most of its history the city belonged to the Kingdom of Poland. From the mid-14th century, to 1772 (see Partitions of Poland), it was part of Ruthenian Voivodeship. Monastyryska received a town charter in 1454, and in February 1653, a battle between Polish and Cossack troops took place here, during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. The Polish army under Stefan Czarniecki failed to capture the town, defended by Ivan Bohun.

After the partitions of Poland, Monastyryska was annexed by the Habsburg Empire. It remained in the province of Galicia until November 1918. In the Second Polish Republic, it was part of Buchach County, Tarnopol Voivodeship. Following the Soviet Invasion of Poland (September 17, 1939), the town was annexed by the Soviet Union. Many Lemkos families came to Monastyryska after Operation Vistula.

Since 1991, it has belonged to the independent Ukraine.

Until 18 July 2020, Monastyryska was the administrative center of Monastyryska Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ternopil Oblast to three. The area of Monastyryska Raion was merged into Chortkiv Raion.[4][5]

Roman Catholic cemetery[]

Monastyryska has one of the largest Roman Catholic cemeteries in the region of Podole, with more than 2,000 stone tombs. The cemetery has the burial chapel of the Potocki family as well as a military chapel, where veterans of the January Uprising and soldiers of the World War I Polish Legions rest.

Gallery[]

  • Exaltation of the Holy Cross Church

  • Former tobacco factory

  • Grave of Ukrainian priests in Monastyryska

  • Primary school in June 2017

People[]

  • Norbert Rybak — Ukrainian public figure,
  • — Polish microbiologist and medicine professor,
  • — Polish journalist, writer and poet,
  • Horacy Safrin — Polish satirist, translator of Jewish literature,
  • — Polish criminologist, pioneer of cheiloscopy (the study of lip prints),
  • — Polish physician, immunologist and microbiologist,
  • Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein — Polish noblewoman, journalist and essayist who is best known for her 40-year relationship with musician Franz Liszt
  • — Polish soccer goalkeeper of Cracovia Krakow and Wisla Krakow, participant in the 1924 Olympic Games,
  • — Polish philologist, historian of language, Polonist and numismatist
  • for centuries, the town was one of seats of the Potocki family, to which it belonged until 1844. Among famous members of the family from Monastyryska is Józef Makary Potocki, Count Antoni Potocki.

References[]

  1. ^ "Монастырысская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. ^ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  3. ^ Рудницький С. Українські козаки, in: В. Щербак (ed.). Коли земля стогнала, Kiev: Наукова думка, 1995, ISBN 5-319-01072-9, p. 258
  4. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  5. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.

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Coordinates: 49°05′20″N 25°10′10″E / 49.08889°N 25.16944°E / 49.08889; 25.16944

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