Pidhaitsi
Years | State | Province | District |
Till 1772 | Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Kingdom of Poland | Rus Voivodship (Województwo ruskie) | |
1772-1867 | Hapsburg Empire, since 1804 - Austrian Empire | Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (Königreich Galizien und Lodomerien) | |
1867-1914 | Austro-Hungarian Monarchy |
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (Königreich Galizien und Lodomerien) |
Bezirk Podhajce |
1914-1915 | Under Russian occupation | General-Government Galitsiia | |
1915-1918 | Austro-Hungarian Monarchy | Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (Königreich Galizien und Lodomerien) | |
1918 - May 1919 | West-Ukrainian People's Republic | ||
May 1919 - September 1939 | Republic of Poland | Tarnopol wojewódstwo | Podhajce powiat |
September 1939 - June 1941 | USSR: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic | Tarnopol oblast' | |
June 1941 - July 1944 | Under German occupation:
General Government (Das Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete) |
Distrikt Galizien | |
1944-91 | USSR: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic | Tarnopol oblast' | Pidhaietskyi raion |
Since 1991 | Republic of Ukraine | Tarnopol oblast' | Pidhaietskyi raion |
Podhajce is a town in Ternopil Oblast, on the Koropets River, a tributary of the Dnester. It is situated ca. 105 km. south-east of Lviv, ca. 45 km. south-west of Ternopol and ca. 50 km. north-east of Ivano-Frankivsk.
A Catholic Church was founded in Podhajce in 1463. In 1539 it was granted a Magdeburg law city charter. During the second half of the sixteenth century the city was put under siege by a Tatar-Cossack army (in 1667) and conquered by the Turks (1675). In 1698 the Polish army gained near Podhajce a decisive victory over the Tatars.
The earliest evidences (namely tombstones in the local Jewish cemetery) on Jewish settlement in Podhajce date from the first half of the fifteenth century.
(Slownik, vol. 8, pp. 384-388; Pinkas Hakehilot - Polin, vol. 2, pp. 410-411).