Kuty
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Kuty (Ukrainian: Кути, German: Kutten, Polish: Kuty, Romanian: Cuturi) is a town in Ukraine, at the Cheremosh river, in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. It is notable as one of the historical centres and the namesake of a historical region of Pokuttya. Population is 4,272 (2001).
First mentioned in 1469 as a village of Jan Odrowąż, the archbishop of Lwów and a personal advisor to several of Polish kings. With time the settlement grew and in 1715 Jan Potocki, the voivod of Kiev granted it with a city charter. He also founded two churches for the local Unites and Armenians. Thanks to fast growth and the proximity of Bukovina, the town soon became a seat of starost of the land of Halicz and one of the administrative centres of the Ruthenian Voivodship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The town remained a personal property of the family of Potoccy until the partitions of Poland. In 1772, however, it was confiscated by the Austrian government and on May 1, 1782 Kuty lost the privileges of a starost town. Because of that the growth was halted and Kuty remained a provincial town inhabitated mostly by Jewish and Armenian merchants, without much significance. In 1849 the town had roughly 3700 inhabitants and in 1880 - 6300. Around that time the town was linked with the rest of Galicia by the Kołomyja-Czerniowce railroad. However, as both Galicia and Bukovina were under Austrian rule, the town could not draw significant income of the proximity of the border with the latter region.
After the collapse of the Central Powers in 1918 the town was briefly under control of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. However, soon it was seized by Romania and then passed to Poland. The town became one of the main border crossings between Poland and Romania and it was there that the Polish president Ignacy Mościcki spent his last days in Poland before he crossed the border into exile during the Polish Defensive War of 1939. Until September 20, 1939 the town was defended by the Polish Army. Among the last soldiers to be killed by the Red Army in heavy fights for the bridge across Cheremosh was a notable Polish writer, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz. After Kuty was overrun by the USSR, the area was annexed into Soviet Ukraine. Since 1991 it is a part of Ukraine.
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[edit] Nearby towns
- Kosiv, Galicia
- Vyzhnytsia, Bukovina
[edit] Further reading
- PolishRoots Geography&Maps (the fifth entry)
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Administrative divisions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine |  |
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Raions: Bohorodchanskyi | Dolynskyi | Halytskyi | Horodenkivskyi | Kaluskyi | Kolomyiskyi | Kosivskyi | Rohatynskyi | Rozhniativskyi | Sniatynskyi | Tlumatskyi | Tysmenytskyi | Verkhovynskyi |
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Cities: Bolekhiv | Burshtyn | Dolyna | Halych | Horodenka | Ivano-Frankivsk | Kalush | Kolomyia | Kosiv | Nadvirna | Rohatyn | Sniatyn | Tlumach | Tysmenytsia | Yaremche |
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Urban-type settlements: Bohorodchany | Kuty | Rozhniativ | Verkhovyna | Zabolotiv | more... |
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Villages: Cheremkhiv | Lisnyi Khlibychyn | Lypivka | more... |
