Tlumach Тлумач | |
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| Coordinates:48°52′0″N25°0′0″E / 48.86667°N 25.00000°E /48.86667; 25.00000 | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast |
| Raion | Ivano-Frankivsk Raion |
| Hromada | Tlumach urban hromada |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 8,689 |
Tlumach (Ukrainian:Тлумач,IPA:[ˈtlumɐtʃ];Polish:Tłumacz;Yiddish:טאַלמיטש,romanized: Talmitsh), also referred to asTovmach (Ukrainian:Товмач), is a smallcity inIvano-Frankivsk Raion,Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, westernUkraine. It hosts the administration ofTlumach urban hromada, one of thehromadas of Ukraine.[1] Population:8,689 (2022 estimate).[2] In 2001, its population was around 8,800.
In Polish and Ukrainian the word means interpreter of the one who explains the meaning of words. Possibly it was named by theWhite Croats that once inhibited the area.[citation needed]
From theFirst Partition of Poland in 1772 until 1918, the town (namedTłumacz) was part of theAustrian monarchy (Austria side after thecompromise of 1867), head of the district with the same name, one of the 78Bezirkshauptmannschaften inAustrian Galicia province (Crown land) in 1900.[3] A post-office was opened in 1858.[4]
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1921 | 5,788 | — |
| 1931 | 6,836 | +18.1% |
| 2022 | 8,689 | +27.1% |
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After the collapse of Austria-Hungary the town briefly became part of the Western Ukrainian Republic before returning to Poland when Poland repulsed the invading Red Army. ThePeace of Riga in 1921, confirmed the Polish possession of Galicia. Tłumacz was the seat of aPowiat (district) in theSecond Polish Republic. In 1921, its population was around 5,000, consisting 3,319 Poles, 1,395 Jews, 999 Ukrainians.[6] The Ukrainians dominated in the villages around the town.
Following the joint German-Sovietinvasion of Poland, which startedWorld War II in September 1939, the village wasoccupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Germany until 1944, and re-occupied by the Soviet Union, which annexed it from Poland in 1945. The Germans, with the assistance of local Ukrainians, murdered the Jews.[6][7] Only about 30 Jews survived.[8] Poles who survived the war were forced by the Soviets to leave Tlumacz after 1945. Most of them settled inLower Silesia; they organized themselves into the Association of Inhabitants of Tlumacz, which is located inWrocław.
Until 18 July 2020, Tlumach was the administrative center ofTlumach Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast to six. The area of Tlumach Raion was merged into Ivano-Frankivsk Raion.[9][10]
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