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Tysmenytsia Тисмениця | |
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 Church of the Nativity of Our Lady | |
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  Tysmenytsia  Tysmenytsia | |
| Coordinates:48°54′03″N24°50′57″E / 48.90083°N 24.84917°E /48.90083; 24.84917 | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast |
| Raion | Ivano-Frankivsk Raion |
| Hromada | Tysmenytsia urban hromada |
| First mentioned | 950 |
| Magdeburg rights | 1449 |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 8,958 |
Tysmenytsia (Ukrainian:Тисмениця,[ˈtɪsmenɪtsʲɐ]ⓘ;Polish:Tyśmienica) is a smallcity inIvano-Frankivsk Raion,Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of westernUkraine. It hosts the administration ofTysmenytsia urban hromada, one of thehromadas of Ukraine.[1] Population:8,958 (2022 estimate).[2]
The city is also located in very close vicinity to the administrative center ofPrykarpattia,Ivano-Frankivsk. It has a population of 9,600 people according to theUkrainian Census (2001).
The city is famous for its fur factory "Tysmenytsia" that was established back in 1891. In the Soviet times the factory was the fourth major factory within thefur industry of theUkrainian SSR.
Tysmenytsia was first mentioned in documents from 1143, and in 1449, when the village belonged to theKingdom of Poland, it receivedMagdeburg rights from Polish kingCasimir IV Jagiellon. At that time, it was aroyal town, with a Polish name of Tyśmienica. Due to its location near the restless southern border of Poland, Tyśmienica was frequently raided and burned to the ground, by theCrimean Tatars andWallachians. Around 1540,Armenian merchant warehouses in Tyśmienica were mentioned.[3]
A local Roman Catholic parish was founded by theVoivode ofBracław Voivodeship,Mikołaj Potocki. The church was operated by theDominican friars underpriorSzymon Okolski, who opened a school here. At that time, Tyśmienica belonged to thePotocki family, who invited Armenian merchants to the town. It became home to one of the Armenian communes in Poland.[4] The Dominican monastery was destroyed in 1676, during thePolish–Ottoman War (1672–76), rebuilt in 1678, and expanded in 1763. In 1686, KingJohn III Sobieski visited the town, awaiting Polish soldiers, who returned from a raid on Moldova. Sobieski stayed in a house which was later named “Panski Dom”, and which was demolished in 1939. In 1759, an Armenian church was opened in Tyśmienica.
In 1772, Tysmienica was annexed by theHabsburg Empire in theFirst Partition of Poland, and remained in AustrianGalicia until 1918. The town, which burned in several fires, lost its importance to the nearbyStanislawow (now Ivano-Frankivsk), and lost its charter. In 1900, Tysmenytsia was inTłumacz powiat.[5]
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1921 | 7,027 | — |
| 1931 | 7,257 | +3.3% |
| 2022 | 8,958 | +23.4% |
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In the interbellum period, Tyśmienica returned to Poland, and until the 1939invasion of Poland belonged toStanisławów Voivodeship. In September 1939 it was captured by theRed Army, and Soviet authorities destroyed all ancient buildings, such as the Dominican church, Armenian church, the house of Sobieski, and historic cemetery. Under the German occupation, which began August 1941, the Germans, assisted by the Ukrainian police, murdered or deported to Stanisławów, all of the Jewish community of Tysmenytsia, which had numbered around 1500. Those sent to Stanisławów were later sent to the killing camp, Belzec. Few of Tysmenytsia's Jews survived the war.[7]
On March 28, 1982 Tysmenytsia became an administrative center of the former Ivano-Frankivsk Raion. Since then the name of raion was changed correspondingly to its administrative center – Tysmenytsia.
Until 18 July 2020, Tysmenytsia was the administrative center ofTysmenytsia 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 Tysmenytsia Raion was merged into Ivano-Frankivsk Raion.[8][9]
As of the2001 Ukrainian census, the town had a population of 9,720. The ethnic composition was as follows:[10]
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| Ukrainians | 99.01% | |||
| Russians | 0.74% | |||
| others | 0.25% | |||
Tysmenytsia can be reached by train, bus or by plane to Ivano-Frankivsk, which is about 20 minutes by bus from the city.
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