Peremyshliany
Appearance
Peremyshliany
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Coordinates: 49°40′12″N 24°33′34″E / 49.67000°N 24.55944°E | |
Country | Ukraine |
Oblast | Lviv Oblast |
Raion | Peremyshliany Raion |
First mentioned | 1437 |
Magdeburg rights | 1623 |
Population (2013) | |
• Total | 6,874 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Peremyshliany (Template:Lang-uk, Template:Lang-pl, Template:Lang-yi) is a town in Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It is administrative center of the Peremyshliany Raion. Population: 6,874 (2013 est.)[1].
Przemyslany, as the town is called in Polish, was first mentioned as a village in 1437. Until the Partitions of Poland (1772), it was part of Poland’s Ruthenian Voivodeship. In 1623, Przemyslany received Magdeburg rights. In 1772 - 1918, it belonged to Austrian Galicia, and in 1918, it returned to Poland. In the Second Polish Republic, it was the seat of a county in Tarnopol Voivodeship. The town had a Jewish population of 2,934 in 1900.[2]
Famous natives
- Naftule Brandwein, klezmer musician
- Wojciech Filarski (1831 - 1898), Polish philosopher, rector of the Lwow University
- bl. Omelian Kovch (1884–1944), Ukrainian priest and martyr murdered at the Majdanek death camp.
- Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), psychoanalyst and natural scientist was born in the village of Dobrzanica (now Dobryanichi), in the Peremyshliany district.
- Adam Daniel Rotfeld Polish diplomat and Foreign Minister.
- Baruch Steinberg (1897-1940), Rabbi killed in Katyn Massacre
Gallery
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Main street of Peremyshliany
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Omelian Kovch monument in Peremyshliany
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Local school and Taras Shevchenko monument
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Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
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Peremyshliany old town
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St. Nicholas Church
References
- ^ Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ^ JewishGen.org
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