Khorostkiv (, ; ; ) is a city in

Chortkiv Raion Chortkiv Raion () is a raion in Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine. Its capital (political), administrative center is the city of Chortkiv. It has a population of History In the Second Polish Republic, the area belonged to the County of Kopczync ...

Ternopil Oblast Ternopil Oblast (), also referred to as Ternopilshchyna () or Ternopillia (), is an Oblasts of Ukraine, oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its Capital (political), administrative center is Ternopil, through which flows the Seret (river), Seret, a tribu ...

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. It hosts the administration of

Khorostkiv urban hromada Khorostkiv urban territorial hromada () is a hromada in Ukraine, in Chortkiv Raion of Ternopil Oblast. The administrative center is the city of Khorostkiv Khorostkiv (, ; ; ) is a city in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the a ...

, one of the

hromada In Ukraine, a hromada () is the main type of municipality and the third level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine, Government of Uk ...

s of Ukraine. Population:

History

In the

Second Polish Republic The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939. The state was established in the final stage of World War I ...

, Khorostkiv, then known as Chorostków, belonged to the County of Kopczynce,

Tarnopol Voivodeship Tarnopol Voivodeship (; ) was an administrative region of Second Polish Republic, interwar Poland (1918–1939), created on 23 December 1920, with an area of 16,500 km2 and provincial capital in Tarnopol (now ''Ternopil'', Ukraine). The Voi ...

. Following the

First Partition of Poland The First Partition of Poland took place in 1772 as the first of three partitions that eventually ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795. The growth of power in the Russian Empire threatened the Kingdom of Prussia an ...

in 1772, it became part of the

Habsburg monarchy The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm (), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities (composite monarchy) that were ruled by the House of Habsburg. From the 18th century it is ...

Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, also known as Austrian Galicia or colloquially Austrian Poland, was a constituent possession of the Habsburg monarchy in the historical region of Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia in Eastern Europe. The Cr ...

. Following the Peace of Schönbrunn in 1809, the area was ceded to the

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but was returned to the Habsburg monarchy as a result of the

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in 1815. After the dissolution of

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in 1918, the area became part of the

. After the

Soviet invasion of Poland The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Second Polish Republic, Poland from the east, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Polan ...

in 1939, it was incorporated into the

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. ...

. Following the invasion of the

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in summer 1941, the area was administrated as part of the

General Government The General Government (, ; ; ), formally the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (), was a German zone of occupation established after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Slovak Republic (1939–1945), Slovakia and the Soviet ...

. When the Soviet Union retook the area in 1944, the region returned to the

. Since the dissolution of the Ukrainian SSR and the Soviet Union in 1991, the area has been part of independent

. In 1977, Khorostkiv was granted City status. In January 1989 the population was 8811 people. Until 18 July 2020, Khorostkiv belonged to

Husiatyn Raion Husiatyn Raion () was a raion (district) in Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Husiatyn. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which red ...

. 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 Husiatyn Raion was merged into Chortkiv Raion.

Notable people

Jan Maszkowski Jan Kanty Ignacy Maszkowski (1794–1865) was a Polish painter; known for portraits, history and genre paintings. Life and work He displayed artistic skills from an early age. A local landowner named Jozef Levitzky took note and helped him enroll ...

(born 1793), painter, born here *

Stanislaw Stys Stanislav and variants may refer to: People *Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.) Places * Stanislav, Kherson Oblast, a coastal village in Ukraine * Stanislaus County, ...

(born 1896), Jesuit theologian, translator and scholar, born here * Blume Lempel (1910-1999), Yiddish writer, born here

Gallery

File:Хоростків Каплиця 2.jpg, Chapel in Khorostkiv cemetery File:Хоростків Комплекс маєтку 1.jpg, Abandoned dwór (mansion) File:Хоростків Кінний манеж.jpg, Former riding hall File:Polish-postage-due-stamp-1924-cancel-Chorostkow.jpg, A postage due stamp of the Second Polish Republic issued in 1924, and cancelled in the town of Chorostkow

References

External links

Chorostkow Book – Sefer Chorostkow – Committee of Former Residents of Chorostkow in Israel, 1968 (418 pages)
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