Horodok, Lviv Oblast

Horodok is a city in Lviv Raion of Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine, known in Polish as Grodek Jagiellonski, standing on the river Vereshytsia west of Lviv, where the river forms a large pond. It has about 16,085 inhabitants (2022 estimate) and hosts the administration of Horodok urban hromada. The settlement appears in the Primary Chronicle and was an important fortification of Galicia-Volhynia in the 13th and 14th centuries before Poland annexed it in the mid-14th century. King Wladyslaw II Jagiello founded a Roman Catholic parish here in 1372 and died in the town on 1 June 1434. Austria took it in 1772, it saw fierce fighting in 1914 and 1915, and in 1655 Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeated Polish forces here before besieging Lviv.