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 ...
, Ukraine. The castle is located on a stone hill of the peninsula, which is surrounded by a pond on the old channel of the
Zbruch River
The Zbruch (; ) is a river in Western Ukraine, a left tributary of the Dniester.Збруч
History
The castle was built in the late 16th century by Bratslav voivode Janusz Zbaraski. After the Zbaraski family, in 1631, the fortress in Toky was passed to the
Wiśniowiecki family
The House of Wiśniowiecki () was a Polish-Lithuanian princely family of Ruthenian origin, notable in the history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. They were powerful magnates with estates predominantly in the Ruthenian lands of the C ...
. In 1648, during
Bohdan Khmelnytskyi
Zynoviy Bohdan Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky of the Abdank coat of arms ( Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern , Polish: ; 15956 August 1657) was a Ruthenian nobleman and military commander of Zaporozhian Cossacks as ...
's uprising, the castle was captured by the Cossacks. In 1675, during the invasion, it was destroyed by the Turks.
It was rebuilt by the end of the 18th century and kept in good condition. Today, the ruins of the pentagonal tower and part of the fortress wall remain.