Tlumach

Tlumach Тлумач
Coat of arms
Tlumach Location of Tlumach within Urkaine
Coordinates: 48°52′0″N 25°0′0″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Ivano-Frankivsk
Raion	Tlumatskyi Raion
Population (2001)
• Total	8,800

Tlumach (Ukrainian: Тлумач; also referred to as Tovmach, Polish: Tłumacz) is a small city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Tlumach Raion (district).

The current estimated population is around 8,800 (as of 2001).

History

The town came under Austrian control in 1772.

Tłumacz was the seat of a Powiat (district) in the Second Polish Republic. In 1921, its population was around 5,000, consisting mostly of Poles and 2,012 Jews,. The Ukrainians dominated in the villages around the town. During World War II , the Germans murdered the Jews, and those Poles who survived were forced by the Soviets to leave Tlumacz after 1945. Most of them settled in Lower Silesia; they organized themselves into the Association of Inhabitants of Tlumacz, which is located in Wrocław.

Name

In Ukrainian the word means interpretor of the one who explains the meaning of words. Possibly it was named by the White Croats that once inhibited the area.

Local orientation

Regional orientation

External links

• Photographs of Jewish sites in Tlumach in Jewish History in Galicia and Bukovina