Kopychentsi

Kopychyntsi
Копичинці

Church of Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Coat of arms

Kopychyntsi

Map of Ukraine with Kopychyntsi highlighted.

Country

First mention

1443

1564

Population (2001 census)

• Total

7,036

EET (UTC+2)

• Summer (DST)

EEST (UTC+3)

Postal code

48260

+380 3557

Kopychyntsi (Ukrainian: Копичинці, Polish: Kopyczyńce) is a small city in Husiatyn Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. It has a population of 7,036 (census 2001). It is the birthplace of Ukrainian chess grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk, Israel Jacob Kligler, who led the effort of eradicating malaria in Mandatory Palestine, and Israeli politician Pinhas Lavon.

The city was first mentioned in 1340 as a village in the povit of Terebovlia. With time it grew to become a town within the Land of Halicz, itself part of Podole Voivodeship of Poland and then the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was granted a city charter in 1564. In late 1648, during the Khmelnytsky Uprising, a combined Cossack and Tartar army under Asand Demko seized the town. However, following the Battle of Kopychyntsi of May 12, 1651, in which the enemy forces were defeated by hetman Marcin Kalinowski, it returned to Poland.

In the effect of the Treaty of Buchach of 1672 the town was ceded to Ottoman Empire, but it returned to Poland after the Treaty of Karlowitz of 1699. Following the Partitions of Poland it became part of Austrian Empire and was then seized by Napoleon Bonaparte who gave it to Russian Empire in the Treaty of Tilsit of 1807. Russian control however ended with the Congress of Vienna which awarded the area back to Austria. It shared the history of the surrounding lands of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria for the rest of the 19th century.