Jarosław

Jarosław

Infobox Settlement
name = Jarosław


image_caption = Corpus Christi church
image_shield = POL Jarosław COA.svg
pushpin_

pushpin_label_position = bottom
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Subcarpathian
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Jarosław County
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Jarosław (urban gmina)
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Andrzej Wyczawski
area_total_km2 = 34.46
population_as_of = 2006
population_total = 40549
population_density_km2 = auto
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
latd = 50 | latm = 1 | lats = 7 | latNS = N | longd = 22 | longm = 40 | longs = 47 | longEW = E
postal_code_type = Postal code
postal_code = 37-500
blank_name = Car plates
blank_info = RJA
website = http://www.jaroslaw.pl

Jarosław [IPA-pl|j|a|'|r|o|s|ł|a|f] ( _yi. יאַרעסלאָוו-"Yareslov") is a town in south-eastern Poland, with 40,523 inhabitants (2004).

Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Przemyśl Voivodeship (1975-1998). It is the capital of Jarosław County.

History

The city was established by the Ukrainian prince Yaroslav the Wise in the 11th century. It was granted Magdeburg rights by Polish prince Władysław Opolczyk in 1375.

The city quickly developed as important trade centre and a port on the San river, reaching the period of its greatest prosperity in 16th and 17th century, with trade routes linking Silesia with Ruthenia and Gdańsk with Hungary coming through it and merchants from such distant countries as Spain, England, Finland, Armenia and Persia arriving at the annual three week long fair on the feast of the Assumption. In 1574 a Jesuit college was established in Jarosław.

In the 1590s Tatars from the Ottoman Empire pillaged the surrounding countryside. (See Moldavian Magnate Wars, "The Magnate Wars (1593-1617), Causes".) They were unable to overcome the city's fortifications, but their raids started to diminish the city's economic strength and importance. Outbreaks of bubonic plague in the 1620s and the Swedish The Deluge in 1655-60 further undermined its prominence. In the Great Northern War of 1700-21 the region was repeatedly pillaged by Russian, Saxon and Swedish armies, causing the city to decline further.

Jarosław was under Austrian rule from the First Partition of Poland in 1772 until Poland regained independence in 1918. After the 2nd World War the city remained part of Poland. Poland's communist government expelled most of Jarosław's Ukrainian population, at first to Soviet territories and later to territories transferred from Germany to Poland in 1944-45.

Sights

* Old town
** Market square
* Remaining city fortifications
* Corpus Cristi collegiate church
* Greek Catholic Transfiguration church
* Benedictines abbey
** Sts. Nicolaus and Stanislaus the Bishop church, sacral art and fortifications
* Dominican monastery
** Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows
* Underground tunnel system

ister cities

*SVK Michalovce 1998
*FRA Orange 2000
*DEU Dingelstädt 2001
*CZE Vyškov 2001
*UKR Uzhhorod 2002
*SVK Humenne 2005
*UKR Yavoriv 2006
*DEU Schönebeck pending ratification

External links

* [http://www.jaroslaw.pl Jarosław city portal]


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