Torchesk (; ) was a

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town, located between today's villages of Olshanytsia and Sharky in

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(

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) of

central Ukraine Central Ukraine (, ) consists of historical regions of left-bank Ukraine and right-bank Ukraine that reference to the Dnieper River. It is situated away from the Black Sea Littoral North and a midstream of the Dnieper River and its basin. The ...

near

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. Torchesk was first mentioned in a chronicle under the year of 1093 as the center of the

Torks Torks (Cyrillic: торки, literally "Turkic peoples, Turks", also known as Torkils) were a medieval Turkic peoples, Turkic tribe of Oghuz Turks, Oghuz and/or Kipchaks, Kipchak origins. The Torks, alongsides Kipchaks (e.g. Berendei), and other t ...

(and later Chorni Klobuky), who settled along the

Ros River The Ros () is a river in Ukraine, a right tributary of the Dnieper. The Ros finds its source in the village of Ordyntsi in Pohrebyshche Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .Kiev Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

an princes. In the second half of the 12th century, Torchesk became the capital of a principality, with its rulers being appointed by the

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s of Kiev. Torchesk was last mentioned in a chronicle in 1234. It appears that the town was destroyed by the

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invasions.

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