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 ...
,
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 ...
, western
Ukraine
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. According to the
2001 Ukrainian census
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There is a Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Sukhostav. ()
History
In 1553 of King
Sigismund II Augustus
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court obtains a privilege from King to establish a ''
miasteczko
A ( or (, ) was a historical type of urban settlement similar to a market town in the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the partitions of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the end of the 18th century, these settlements became w ...
'' (
market town
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) in place of the village of Jablonow. For faster development it was granted the
Magdeburg rights
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and relieved of state taxes for 15 years. Eventually Jablonow remained a village, and the ''miasteczko'' named Suchostaw was established nearby. The
coat of arms
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of the place was
Pilawa
Pilawa is a town in Garwolin County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,121 inhabitants (2004), southeast of Warsaw.
History
Pilawa was administratively located in the Siedlce Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998.
In 2016, town limits were slightl ...
(the owner's) on the blue field, with the golden fish on the bottom (Only fish remained on the current c.o.a.). Over time it changed owners. It was destroyed during the Khmelnytsky Cossack Uprising (1648-1657) and rebuilt again. During the Partitions of Poland it belonged to the Austrian Partition.''
Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland
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Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns ...
When the ''mizateczko'' was restored after the Cossack Uprising, Jewish innkeepers, renters and tradesmen started settling the place. During
World War I
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some 200 Jews emigrated, but some 40 families stayed, engaged in small crafts and peddling."Suchostaw" a translation from: Pinkas Hakehillot, ''Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities'', Poland, Volume II, pages 349-350, published by
Yad Vashem
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, Jerusalem
During
World War II
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the Jewish population was expelled to the nearby town of
Khorostkiv
Khorostkiv (, ; ; ) is a city in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Khorostkiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population:
History
In the Second Polish Republic, Khorostkiv, then known as Ch ...
and most probably they were exterminated during
the Holocaust
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