Zolochiv
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| Zolochiv Золочів Złoczów |
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Downtown Zolochiv
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Zolochiv is located in Lviv Oblast
 Zolochiv
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Zolochiv
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| Country | Ukraine | |
| Region | Lviv Oblast | |
| District | Zolochiv Raion | |
| Founded | 1442 | |
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| • Total | 11,64 km2 (449 sq mi) | |
| Population (2001) | ||
| • Total | 25,000 | |
| • Density | 21/km2 (56/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+02:00) | |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+03:00) | |
| Postal code | 80700 | |
| Area codes | +380 3265 | |
| Website | zolochiv-rada |
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Zolochiv (Ukrainian: Золочів, Polish: Złoczów, Yiddish: זלאָטשאָוו, Zlotchov) is a small city of district significance in Lviv Oblast of Ukraine, the administrative center of Zolochiv Raion. The city is located 60 kilometers east of Lviv along highway H02 Lviv-Ternopil and the railway line Krasne-Ternopil. Population: 24,074 (2013 est.)[1]. Area — 11,64 km2.
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History
The site was occupied from AD 1180 under the name Radzicze until the end of the 13th century when a wooden fort was constructed. This was burned in the 14th century during the invasion of the Crimean Tatars.
In 1442 the city was founded as Zolochiv, by John of Sienna, a Polish nobleman of the Dębno family, Although the first written mention of Zolochiv was in 1423.
By 1523 it was already a city of Magdeburg rights.
Zolochiv was incorporated as a town on 15 September 1523 by the Polish king Sigismund I the Old. Located in the Ruthenian Voivodship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, it belonged to several noble families.
From the first partition of Poland in 1772 until 1918, the town was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austria side after the compromise of 1867), head of the district with the same name, one of the 78 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Austrian Galicia province, or "Crown land", in 1900.[2] The fate of this province was then disputed between Poland and Russia, until the Peace of Riga in 1921, attributing Galicia to the Second Polish Republic.
From 15 March 1923 to August 16, 1945, a town in the administrative district of the second Polish Republic in Ternopil. Zolochiv, still named Złoczów, belonged to the Tarnopol Voivodship until the Polish September Campaign in 1939, when it was occupied by the Soviet Union.
After the attack of Nazi Germany on the USSR in June 1941 to July 1944 the city was incorporated into the General Government in the District of Galicia. From July 1944 to 16 August 1945 it was again occupied by the Red Army.
After the Yalta Conference (4–11 February 1945), drawn as a consequence of the findings of the interim Government of national unity signed on August 16, 1945, an agreement with the USSR, recognising the slightly modified Curzon line for the Eastern Polish border, on the basis of the agreement on the border between the SOVIET UNION and PKWN Government on July 27, 1944. In the Tarnopol voivodeship agreements Zolochiv was included in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR, where it remained until 1991.
Since 1991 on the territory of Ukraine.
Architectural landmarks
- Zolochiv Castle, built in the early 17th century by Jakub Sobieski (the king's father)
- Stone Synagogue, 1724 ([1])(destroyed during World War II)
- Church of the Assumption, Zolochiv, 1730
- St. Nicolas Church, Zolochiv, 16th century
- Church of the Resurrection, Zolochiv, 17th century
- Church of the Ascension, Zolochiv, 19th century
- Arsenal, Zolochiv, 15th century
Famous people from Zolochiv
- Tadeusz Brzezinski, Polish diplomat, father of Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Jan Cienski, a Roman Catholic bishop,
- Wlodzimierz Demetrykiewicz, archaeologist, professor of the Jagiellonian University,
- Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, Yiddish writer
- Franz von Hillenbrand, a German aristocrat, Imperial and Royal accountant
- Roald Hoffmann, chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Tadeusz Hupalowski, a Polish Army general,
- Andriy Husin, football player
- Naphtali Herz Imber - Jewish poet, wrote lyrics of Hatikvah, the national anthem of Israel
- Marian Iwańciów, a painter
- Rabbi Yechiel Michel, Maggid (Preacher) of Zlotshev
- Fryderyk Papee, historian, professor of the Jagiellonian University,
- Ilya Schor, a painter, jeweler, engraver, and artist of Judaica
- Abraham Shalit, Jewish historian
- James Sobieski, a Polish prince
- John III Sobieski, the king of Poland
- Katarzyna Sobieska, the sister of Jan III Sobieski and a noble lady
- Kamil Stefko, lawyer, one of creators of legal system of the Second Polish Republic
- Waclaw Swiezawski, bishop of Sandomierz,
- Jan Thullie, general of the Polish Army
- Igor Vovchanchyn, a MMA fighter
- Weegee
- Rabbi Zev Wolf
- Ignacy Zaborowski, mathematician, professor.
Picture gallery
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Zolochiv Castle
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Great Palace of Zolochiv Castle
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Church of the Assumption
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Interior of the Assumption Church
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St. Nicholas Church
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Church of the Resurrection
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Monastery of the Order of Saint Basil the Great
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Church of the Ascension
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Old houses in the town center
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Old houses in the town center
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Old houses in the town center
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Old houses in the town center
References
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Zolochiv. |
- Official city webpage (Ukrainian)
- History of Zolochiv and Zolochiv Region (in Ukrainian) (Ukrainian)
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles containing Ukrainian-language text
- Articles containing Polish-language text
- Articles containing Yiddish-language text
- Commons category link is defined as the pagename
- Articles with Ukrainian-language external links
- Cities in Lviv Oblast
- Galicia (Eastern Europe)
- Tarnopol Voivodeship
- Shtetls
- Cities of district significance in Ukraine
