Tysmenytsia
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Tysmenytsia Тисмениця |
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Church of the Nativity of Our Lady
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 Ukraine
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| Oblast | Ivano-Frankivsk | ||
| Raion | Tysmenytsia Raion | ||
| First mentioned | 1143 | ||
| Magdeburg rights | 1449 | ||
| Population (2016) | |||
| • Total | 9,357 | ||
Tysmenytsia (Ukrainian: Тисмениця; a.k.a. Tysmienica, Tysmenitsa, Tyśmienica ) is a city, the administrative center of Tysmenytsia Raion (district) in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of western Ukraine. Population: 9,357 (2016 est.).
The city is also located in very close vicinity to the administrative center of Prykarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk. It has a population 9,600 people according to the Ukrainian 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 the fur industry of the Ukrainian SSR.
Tysmenytsia was first mentioned in documents from 1143, and in 1449, when the village belonged to the Kingdom of Poland, it received Magdeburg rights from Polish king Kazimierz Jagiellonczyk. At that time, it was a royal town, with a Polish name of Tysmienica. Due to its location near the restless southern border of Poland, Tysmienica was frequently raided and burned to the ground, by the Crimean Tatars and Wallachians.
A local Roman Catholic parish was founded by the Voivode of Braclaw Voivodeship, . The church was operated by the Dominican monks under prior Szymon Okolski, who opened a school here. At that time, Tysmienica belonged to the , who invited Armenian merchants to the town. The Dominican monastery was destroyed in 1676, during the Polish–Ottoman War (1672–76), rebuilt in 1678, and expanded in 1763. In 1759, an Armenian church was opened in Tysmienica.
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