Zolochiv
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Zolochiv Золочів |
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| City of district significance | ||
Downtown Zolochiv
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 Zolochiv
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| Coordinates: 49°48′26.97″N 24°54′11.02″E / 49.8074917°N 24.9030611°ECoordinates: 49°48′26.97″N 24°54′11.02″E / 49.8074917°N 24.9030611°E | ||
| Country | Ukraine | |
| Region | Lviv Oblast | |
| District | Zolochiv Raion | |
| Founded | 1442 | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 11,64 km2 (449 sq mi) | |
| Population (2001) | ||
| • Total | 25,000 | |
| • Density | 21/km2 (56/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+02:00) | |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+03:00) | |
| Postal code | 80700 | |
| Area codes | +380 3265 | |
| Website | zolochiv-rada |
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Zolochiv (Ukrainian: Золочів, Polish: Złoczów, Yiddish: זלאָטשאָוו, Zlotchov) is a small city of district significance in Lviv Oblast of Ukraine, the administrative center of Zolochiv Raion. The city is located 60 kilometers east of Lviv along highway H02 Lviv-Ternopil and the railway line Krasne-Ternopil. Population: 24,074 (2013 est.). Area — 11,64 km2.
The site was occupied from AD 1180 under the name Radzicze until the end of the 13th century when a wooden fort was constructed. This was burned in the 14th century during the invasion of the Crimean Tatars.
In 1442 the city was founded as Zolochiv, by John of Sienna, a Polish nobleman of the Dębno family, Although the first written mention of Zolochiv was in 1423.
By 1523 it was already a city of Magdeburg rights.
Zolochiv was incorporated as a town on 15 September 1523 by the Polish king Sigismund I the Old. Located in the Ruthenian Voivodship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, it belonged to several noble families.
From the first partition of Poland in 1772 until 1918, the town was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austria side after the compromise of 1867), head of the district with the same name, one of the 78 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Austrian Galicia province, or "Crown land", in 1900. The fate of this province was then disputed between Poland and Russia, until the Peace of Riga in 1921, attributing Galicia to the Second Polish Republic.
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