Chynadiiovo or Chynadiieve (; ; ; ; ) is a

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Mukachevo Raion Mukachevo Raion (, ) is a raion (district) of Zakarpattia Oblast (province) of Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukra ...

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. It stands in the

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valley, from the town of

Mukachevo Mukachevo (, ; , ; see name section) is a city in Zakarpattia Oblast, western Ukraine. It is situated in the valley of the Latorica River and serves as the administrative center of Mukachevo Raion. The city is a rail terminus and highway junct ...

. Its population is

History

The settlement took its Hungarian name from the church of St. Nicholas (Szentmiklós). Its history can be traced to the 13th century. King

Béla IV Béla may refer to: * Béla (crater), an elongated lunar crater * Béla (given name), a common Hungarian male given name See also * Bela (disambiguation) * Belá (disambiguation) * Bělá (disambiguation) Bělá may refer to: Places in the Cze ...

presented the area to his son-in-law,

Rostislav Mikhailovich Rostislav Mikhailovich (, Bulgarian language, Bulgarian and Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Ростислав Михайлович) (after 1210 / c. 1225 – 1262) was a Rurikid prince and a dignitary in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was Novgorod R ...

, in 1247. It changed hands many times in the 14th century.

Péter Perényi Péter Perényi de Nagyida (died around 1423), son of Simon of the Perényi branch of the Šubić clan, was the head (or ''ispán'') of Temes County from the end of the 14th century into the start of the 15th century. He also commanded Golubac ...

, who owned Szentmiklós in the early 15th century, commenced building a castle. It suffered serious damage at the hands of

Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski Prince Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski (20 January 1616 – 31 December 1667) was a Polish noble (szlachcic), magnate, politician and military commander, and Prince of the Holy Roman Empire. He was the initiator of the Lubomirski Rebellion of 166 ...

's forces in 1657. The surviving edifice is the upshot of

Francis I Rákóczi Francis I Rákóczi (February 24, 1645, Gyulafehérvár, Transylvania – July 8, 1676, Zboró, Royal Hungary) was a Hungarian aristocrat, elected prince of Transylvania and father of Hungarian national hero Francis Rákóczi II. Francis ...

's rebuilding campaign. After the defeat of Rákóczi's War for Independence

Emperor Charles VI Charles VI (; ; 1 October 1685 – 20 October 1740) was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1711 until his death, succeeding his elder brother, Joseph I. He unsuccessfully claimed the throne of Spain follow ...

gave Mukachevo and Chynadiiovo to Archbishop

Lothar Franz von Schönborn Lothar Franz von Schönborn-Buchheim (4 October 1655 – 30 January 1729) was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1694 to 1729 and the Bishop of Bamberg from 1693 to 1729. As Archbishop of Mainz, he was also Archchancellor of the Holy Roman Emp ...

. A year later it passed to his nephew, Bishop Friedrich Karl von Schönborn-Buchheim. The Schönborn era continued in Chynadiiovo well into the 20th century. The Mukachevo-Chynadiiovo estate was one of the largest in

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. As of 1731, the estate comprised 200 villages and 4 towns, covering an area of some 2,400 km^{2

The town's most striking landmark is the Jagdschloss, hunting lodge of the Schönborns, the Beregvar Hunting Lodge, originally built of timber, but rebuilt as a large country residence to a fanciful revivalist design in the 1890s.

Until 26 January 2024, Chynadiiovo was designated urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...
. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Chynadiiovo became a rural settlement.

Notable people

* Vasyl Turyanchyk

Vasyl Yuriyovych Turyanchyk (; 17 April 1935 – 31 March 2022
) was a Ukrainian ...
, Soviet footballer, FC Hoverla Uzhhorod

Football Club Hoverla Uzhhorod ( ) was a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club based in Uzhhorod. Following the end of the 2015–16 Ukrainian Premier League, 2015–16 season it was expelled from the Ukrainian Premier Leagu ...
player

References

Rural settlements in Mukachevo Raion

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