Peremyshliany
| Peremyshliany | ||
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| City | ||
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Skyline of 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) | |
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]
Famous natives
- Naftule Brandwein, klezmer musician
- Wojciech Filarski (1831 - 1898), Polish philosopher, rector of the Lwow University
- bl. Omelian Kovch (1884–1944), Ukrainian priest and martyr murdered at the Majdanek death camp.
- Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), psychoanalyst and natural scientist was born in the village of Dobrzanica (now Dobryanichi), in the Peremyshliany district.
- Adam Daniel Rotfeld Polish diplomat and Foreign Minister.
- Baruch Steinberg (1897-1940), Rabbi killed in Katyn Massacre
Gallery
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Main street of Peremyshliany
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Omelian Kovch monument in Peremyshliany
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Local school and Taras Shevchenko monument
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Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
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Peremyshliany old town
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St. Nicholas Church
References
- ↑ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ↑ JewishGen.org
External links
Coordinates: 49°40′12″N 24°33′34″E / 49.67000°N 24.55944°E