Delatyn

Delatyn (Ukrainian: Делятин, Polish: Delatyn, Yiddish: דעלאטין‎) is an urban-type settlement in Nadvirna Raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It is located 101 km west of Chernivtsi and 294.6 miles WSW of Kiev. Together with Yaremche and Lanchyn combines into a local small agglomeration that runs along the Prut River valley between the Carpathian Mountains. Population: 8,430 (2016 est.).

Delatyn is known as Delatin, Delatyn (German), Deliatin (Hungarian), and Delyatin.

Delatyn became part of Poland (together with Red Ruthenia) in the 15th century. In 1772, it was seized by the Austro-Hungarian Empire together with the province of Galicia (see: Partitions of Poland). After World War I, the town was in the Second Polish Republic, in the Stanisławów Voivodeship. Located in the picturesque area, it was a popular spa, with around 1000 visitors yearly (in the late 1920s). Delatyn was captured by the Red Army in 1939 (see: Polish September Campaign).