Tlumach

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Tlumach
native_name = Тлумач
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = UKR
subdivision_type1 = Oblast
subdivision_name1 = Ivano-Frankivsk
subdivision_type2 = Raion
subdivision_name2 = Tlumatskyi Raion
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population_total = 8800
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longd=25 |longm=0 |longs=0 |longEW=E
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Tlumach ( _uk. Тлумач; also referred to as Tovmach, _pl. Tłumacz) is a small city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Tlumatsky Raion (district).

The current estimated population is around 8,800 (as of 2001).

History

The town come under Austrian control in 1772. [http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/tlumach/tlumach.html ShtetLinks Page -- Tlumach] ]

Tłumacz was the seat of a Powiat (district) in the Second Polish Republic. In 1921, its population was around 5,000, consisting mostly of Poles and 2,012 Jews, with members of the Armenian minority. The Ukrainians dominated in the villages around the town. During World War Two, the Germans murdered the Jews, and those Poles and Armenians who survived were forced by the Soviets to leave Tlumacz after 1945. Most of them settled in Lower Silesia; they organized themselves into the Association of Inhabitants of Tlumacz, which is located in Wroclaw.

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