Peremyshliany

Peremyshliany
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Country  Ukraine
Province Lviv Oblast
Raion Peremyshliany Raion
First mentioned 1437
Magdeburg rights 1623
Population (2013)
  Total 6,874
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
  Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Location in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Peremyshliany (Ukrainian: Перемишляни, Polish: Przemyślany, Yiddish: פרימישלאן) is a town in Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It is administrative center of the Peremyshliany Raion. Population: 6,874(2013 est.)[1].

Przemyslany, as the town is called in Polish, was first mentioned as a village in 1437. Until the Partitions of Poland (1772), it was part of Poland’s Ruthenian Voivodeship. In 1623, Przemyslany received Magdeburg rights. In 1772 - 1918, it belonged to Austrian Galicia, and in 1918, it returned to Poland. In the Second Polish Republic, it was the seat of a county in Tarnopol Voivodeship. The town had a Jewish population of 2,934 in 1900.[2]

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Coordinates: 49°40′12″N 24°33′34″E / 49.67000°N 24.55944°E / 49.67000; 24.55944

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