Yezupil

Infobox City
subdivision_type = Country
settlement_type = Town
official_name = Yezupil| native_name = Єзупіль| subdivision_name = Ukraine
subdivision_type1 = Oblast
subdivision_name1 = Ivano-Frankivsk
population_total = 3026
area_total_km2 = 28.220
established_date = 1435
code = 3436
latd = 49
latm = 02
latNS = N
longd = 24
longm = 47
longEW = E
website = [http://gska2.rada.gov.ua/pls/z7502/A005?rdat1=10.09.2007&rf7571=42261 Ukrainian Parliament website]
mayor=

Yezupil ( _uk. Єзупіль, _pl. Jezupol) is a town/urban-type settlement ("selysche mis'koho typu") in western Ukraine. It is located in the Tysmenytsky Raion (district) of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province), approximately 14 km north of the oblast capital, Ivano-Frankivsk.

Yezupil was previously referred to as part of the Halych Powiat (county). It is also a part of the historic region of Pokuttya in Galicia.

Turn of the century town Jezupol (former Zhovten) was a fair size town (with its own Jewish Kahil and Roman Catholic Church and Greek Catholic Church) in Galicia/Halychyna in Austro-Hungarian Empire.

It is approximately 7 km from Halych, the former capital of the Principality of Halych Volhynia in the 10/12th centuries. In 1352 – 1772 it was a part of Ruthenia Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland. First written in 1435. Up until the 16th century it was a village named Tzaishibesi, which had a wooden fortress. When the fort was destroyed during one of the Tatar incursions, Jacob Pototski, Breslau Wojiwoda and private owner of the town, renamed it Jesupol, after Jesus in 1597. In 1598, a fortress and Dominican monastery was erected, and the town developed next to it. The monastery had a rich and famous library of ancient scriptures and prints.

Upon the partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772 the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, or simply Galicia, became the largest, most populous, and northernmost province of the Austrian Empire, where it remained until the dissolution of Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I.

In 1918, Western Galicia became a part of the restored Republic of Poland.

In the prelude to the Second World War, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact divided Poland roughly along the Curzon line. Thus all territory east of the San, Bug and Neman rivers were annexed into the USSR, approximating the former territory of East Galicia. This territory was divided into four administrative districts (oblasts): Lvov, Stanislav, Drohobych and Tarnopol (the latter including parts of Volhynia) of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Since September 17, 1939, was a part of the USSR. Since June 22, 1941, the period of Sovietisation came to an end when Germany had occupied East Galicia during Operation Barbarossa. This was a period of massacres.

The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was renamed Ukraine on August 24, 1991, and split from the USSR on the same day, becoming an independent state.

Current zip code for town is 77431.

References

* [http://www.dir.icm.edu.pl/pl/Slownik_geograficzny/Tom_III/581 Geographic Library of the Kingdom of Poland (Polish_language)]

External links

* [http://wikimapia.org/5523362/ua/смт._Єзупіль wikimapia]