Stryi
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Stryi Стрий |
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| City of regional significance | |||
Aerial view of Stryi town with Air Base visible
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| Motto: Semper fidelis | |||
 Stryi
Stryi
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| Coordinates: 49°15′22″N 23°51′1″E / 49.25611°N 23.85028°E | |||
| Country |
 Ukraine
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| Oblast |
 Lviv Oblast
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| Municipality | Stryi | ||
| Founded | 13th century | ||
| Magdeburg law | 1431 | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Roman Shramovyat | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 16.95 km2 (6.54 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 296 m (971 ft) | ||
| Population (2013) | |||
| • Total | 60,126 | ||
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | ||
| Postal code | 82400 | ||
| Area code(s) | +380-3245 | ||
| Licence plate | BC (before 2004: ТА,ТВ,ТН,ТС) | ||
| Website | http://stryi-rada.gov.ua/index.php | ||
Stryi (Ukrainian: Стрий, Polish: Stryj) is a city located on the left bank of the Stryi River in Lviv Oblast (region) of western Ukraine (in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains). Serving as the administrative center of Stryi Raion (district), It is designated as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. Population: 60,126 (2013 est.).
Stryi is considered to be the first city in Ukraine to bear the blue-over-yellow Ukrainian national flag when it was hoisted on the flagpole of the Town Hall on March 14, 1990 before the fall of the Soviet regime.
Most likely the city got its name from the name of the river Stryi, one of the tributaries of Dniester. Obviously, the name of the river is older than the city that was founded later.
Stryi, as a name of river is a very old name and means "stream". Its etymology stems from an Indo-European root *sreu. Words that have the same root can be found in modern Ukrainian - струм, струя, Polish - struga, strumien, Irish (Celtic) - sruami, German - Strom (large river), Persian - struth (river), Hindu - sravati (to flow), Latvian - straume, Lithuanian - sriatas, strautas (stream, the thing that flows) and several other languages. It might also derive from Iranian word "Styr", which means "big" in Ossetian, as there is also other Styr river in Ukraine. The area was inhabited by the Ukrainian tribe of White Croats and it has been established that name Horvat (Croat) is likewise of Iranian (Sarmatian) origin.
In different times the name was written differently, although it has always sounded the same. In various old documents we can find such names: Stryg, Stry, Stryj, Stryjn, Stryjia, Strig, Strigenses, Stryi, Strey, Striig, Strya, Sthryensis, Sthrya, Stryei, Stri. The inhabitants take pride in the fact that the city has managed to keep its original name over time.
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