Zbarazh

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Zbarazh (Ukrainian and Russian: Збараж, Polish: Zbaraż, Yiddish: Zbarj) is a city in the Ternopil Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Zbarazky Raion (district), and is located in the historic region of Galicia.

The current estimated population is around 13,000.

[edit] History

First attested in 1211 as a strong Ruthenian fortress, Zbarazh became a seat of the Gediminid Princes Zbarazski towards the end of the 14th century. Ruins of the original castle are extant in the vicinity of modern Zbarazh.

The new castle was designed for Prince Jeremi Wiśniowiecki in a post-Palladian Italian idiom similar to Scamozzi's by the Dutch architect van Peyen in 1626–31. The castle was partly rebuilt in the 18th century.

Zbarazh preserves several remarkable churches, notably the Saviour Church (1600) and the Bernardine Monastery (1627).

The town formerly had a sizable Jewish population; its natives included the rabbi Zev Wolf and the singer Velvel Zbarjer.

Zbarazh is one of the settings of Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel With Fire and Sword (1884).

	Administrative divisions of Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine
	Raions: Berezhanskyi | Borshchivskyi | Buchatskyi | Chortkivskyi | Husiatynskyi | Kozivskyi | Kremenetskyi | Lanovetskyi | Monastyryskyi | Pidhaietskyi | Pidvolochyskyi | Shumskyi | Terebovlianskyi | Ternopilskyi | Zalishchytskyi | Zbarazkyi | Zborivskyi
	Cities: Berezhany | Borshchiv | Buchach | Chortkiv | Khorostkiv | Kopychyntsi | Kremenets | Lanivtsi | Monastyryska | Pidhaitsi | Pochaiv | Shumsk | Skalat | Terebovlia | Ternopil | Zalischyky | Zbarazh | Zboriv
	Urban-type settlements: Husiatyn | Kozova | Pidvolochysk | Vyshnivets | more...
	Villages: Budaniv | Okopy | Shutromintsy | more...