Shehyni (, ) is a village of

Yavoriv Raion Yavoriv Raion () is a raion (district) in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Yavoriv. It was established in 1939. Its estimated population is On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number ...

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of western

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. It hosts the administration of Shehyni rural hromada, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Located at the border with Poland, it is best known as the site of the

Medyka Medyka () is a village in Przemyśl County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine. It is the seat of the municipality (gmina) called Gmina Medyka. It lies approximately east of Przemyśl and east of the r ...

- Shehyni border checkpoint.

History

The village, situated 14 km east of the city of

Przemyśl Przemyśl () is a city in southeastern Poland with 56,466 inhabitants, as of December 2023. Data for territorial unit 1862000. In 1999, it became part of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Subcarpathian Voivodeship. It was previously the capital of Prz ...

was first mentioned in 1515 in a royal charter under the name of Szechinie. For most of its existence the village belonged to the Land of Przemyśl, itself part of the

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of the Kingdom of Poland and then (since 1772) Austrian Galicia. From the very beginning, the village belonged to the so-called key of estates including Medyka, Pozdziacz, Torki and Buców, centred on the manor in Medyka, all based on a local variant of

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, dubbed ''Ruthenian law''. Initially the peasants settled there were tasked with taking care of the royal stables in Medyka; with time their duty towards the owner of Medyka manor was modified to simple

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, with yearly

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paid in grain. The village had a voigt (a certain Konarski) as late as 1565, and was populated by no more than 7 families of

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s. By 1589 the village had 48 male inhabitants (eligible for levy) and two

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paying a yearly rent of 78 zlotys. Some time before that date a

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and a

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were constructed in the village. As part of the

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in 1880 there were only a handful of houses along the road linking Przemyśl with Mościska (today

Mostyska Mostyska ( ; , both in the ' form), is a city in Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Mostyska urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The city is located in western portion of Sian Lowland near ...

), with time the village grew to 1036 inhabitants (including 825

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, 237

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and 63

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). Until 18 July 2020, Shehyni belonged to Mostyska Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Mostyska Raion was merged into Yavoriv Raion.

Infrastructure

In addition the border checkpoint, the village has the train station; "Derzhkordon" translates to "state border". The road also passes through Shehyni.

Notes

References

{{Reflist Villages in Yavoriv Raion