Hlyniany (, ; ; ) is a small
city
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in
Lviv Raion
Lviv Raion () is a raion (district) of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It was created on 18 July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The center of the raion is the city of Lviv. Four abolished raions, Horodok, Peremyshliany, ...
,
Lviv Oblast
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History Name
The region is named ...
(
region
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) of
Ukraine
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. It hosts the administration of
Hlyniany urban hromada, one of the
hromada
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s of Ukraine.
Population:
History
In 1340, together with whole
Red Ruthenia
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, Hlyniany became part of the
Kingdom of Poland
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Background
The West Slavs, West Slavic tribe of Polans (western), Polans who lived in what i ...
, where it remained until 1772 (see
Partitions of Poland
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). The village, called Gliniany, belonged to
Lwow Land of the
Ruthenian Voivodeship
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. It received a town charter in 1397, from
Voivode
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of
Sandomierz
Sandomierz (pronounced: ; , ) is a historic town in south-eastern Poland with 23,863 inhabitants (), situated on the Vistula River near its confluence with the San, in the Sandomierz Basin. It has been part of Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (Holy ...
and
Starosta
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The Slavic root of "starost" translates as "senior". Since the Middle Ages, it has designated an official in a leadersh ...
of Red Ruthenia, Jan z Tarnowa. In 1425, King
Wladyslaw Jagiello confirmed Gliniany's charter. In summer 1537, it was one of the centers of the so-called
Chicken War
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The derisive name was coined by the ''Magnates of Poland a ...
.
In 1772 Gliniany became part of Austria's province of
Galicia, in the ''Bezirkshauptmannshaft'' (District) of
Przemyslany where it remained until late 1918. In the interbellum period, it belonged to the
Second Polish Republic
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, as part of Przemyslany County,
Tarnopol Voivodeship
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.
The Jewish population was 2,418 in 1910. In 1940-1961 it was a district center.
Until 18 July 2020, Hlyniany belonged to
Zolochiv Raion. In July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven, Hlyniany was transferred to Lviv Raion.
See also
*
Hlyniany Gate
References
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Cities in Lviv Oblast
Cities of district significance in Ukraine