Hlyniany

Hlyniany is a small city in Lviv Raion of Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine and the seat of the Hlyniany urban hromada. Its 2022 population estimate is 2,954. Known in Polish as Gliniany and in Yiddish as Glina, it passed with Red Ruthenia to the Kingdom of Poland in 1340 and received a town charter in 1397, confirmed again in 1425. It was one of the centres of the Chicken War of 1537. After 1772 it belonged to Austrian Galicia, later to interwar Poland, and in 1939 it was annexed by the Soviet Union and renamed Hlyniany. About 2,418 Jews lived there in 1910, and the whole town numbered 4,500 in 1931. It was a district centre from 1940 to 1961 and has been historically known for food processing and rug production. Since July 2020 it has belonged to Lviv Raion.