Peremyshliany (, ; ; , ''Premishlan'') is a small city 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 Lviv Oblast (, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna (, ), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast in western Ukraine. The capital city, capital of the oblast is the city of Lviv. The current population is History Name The region is named ...

(

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) of

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. It hosts the administration of Peremyshliany urban hromada, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Population: Przemyślany, as the town is called in Polish, was first mentioned as a village in 1437. Until the

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(1772), it was part of Poland's

Ruthenian Voivodeship The Ruthenian Voivodeship (; ; ) was a voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1434 until the First Partition of Poland in 1772, with its center in the city of Lwów (lat. Leopolis) (modern day Lviv). Together with a number of ot ...

. In 1623, Przemyslany received

Magdeburg rights Magdeburg rights (, , ; also called Magdeburg Law) were a set of town privileges first developed by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (936–973) and based on the Flemish Law, which regulated the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages gr ...

. In 1772-1918, it belonged to Austrian Galicia, and in 1919, it returned to Poland. In the

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, it was the seat of a county in

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 ...

. The town had a Jewish population of 2,934 in 1900. Most of them were murdered in the

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. Since 1909, the Lviv-Pidhaitsi railroad has been running through the town, which facilitated the development of trade and logging and gave impetus to the growth of the town's economy, and the development of forestry and trade began. During the First World War, two fierce Austro-Russian battles took place near Przemyślany (August 29-30, 1914 and June 29-July 2, 1915). After the First World War, Przemyślany became part of Poland. During August-September 1920, the city was occupied by the Red Army, but after the defeat of the Red cavalry near Warsaw, 1918-1939 marked the city's re-affiliation with Poland. In 1931, the city was inhabited by 67% Poles, 20% Jews, 13% Ukrainians, and others. Poland retained these lands until 1939. Then came the Second World War. In September 1939, the Soviets came to the city again. Soviet rule is established in the city. On 10.02. and 13.04. 1941, almost 90 people, mostly Poles, were deported from Przemyślany to Siberia. The German occupation began on July 1, 1941, when the first German soldiers entered Przemyślany. On July 4 (according to other sources, 15.07-www.jewishgen.org), in the afternoon, the main local synagogue was burned down, where an unknown number of Jews were kept. On May 22, 1943, the Nazis killed the Jewish population in Przemyślany. On June 18, 1944, the Nazi troops were driven out by the Soviet 16th Brigade of Colonel Vsevolod Ryvzh. Peremyshliany holocaust memorial

Until 18 July 2020, Peremyshliany was the administrative center of Peremyshliany Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of

to seven. The area of Peremyshliany Raion was merged into Lviv Raion.

Notable people

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musician * (1831–1898), Polish philosopher, rector of the

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* bl. Omelian Kovch (1884–1944), Ukrainian priest and martyr murdered at the

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death camp. *

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(1897–1957),

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and

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was born in the village of

Dobrzanica Dobrianychi, also written as Dobryanichi or Dobrjanici (; , ), is a village in Lviv Oblast near the town of Peremyshliany in Ukraine. Dobrianychi is formed from the village of Dobrianychi and the villages of Ploska (Плоска) and Tutschne (Т ...

(now Dobryanichi), in the Peremyshliany district *

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(born 1938), Polish diplomat and Foreign Minister *

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(1897-1940), Rabbi killed in

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* Vilunya Diskin (b. 1941), Holocaust survivor, founding member and author of

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Gallery

File:Перемышляны. Главная улица..jpg, Main street of Peremyshliany File:Перемышляны. Памятник Тарасу Шевченко..jpg, Local school and

Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (; ; 9 March 1814 – 10 March 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist, and ethnographer. He was a fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts and a member of the Brotherhood o ...

monument File:Перемышляны. Петропавловский костел..jpg, Church of St. Peter and St. Paul File:Перемышляны. Старые здания..jpg, Peremyshliany old town File:Перемышляны. Церковь Святого Николая..jpg, St. Nicholas Church

References

External links

Peremyshliany town website

*
Peremyshlany/Peremyshliany
(p. 417) at Miriam Weiner's

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. {{Authority control Cities in Lviv Oblast Historic Jewish communities in Ukraine Cities of district significance in Ukraine

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