Staryi Sambir

Staryi Sambir is a small city in Sambir Raion of Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine, close to the border with Poland. Its name, which in Ukrainian means Old Sambir, sets it apart from the neighbouring and larger city of Sambir, and in Polish it has been called Stary Sambor. The settlement is the seat of the Staryi Sambir urban hromada, one of the local self-governing communities created in Ukraine's administrative reform, and until 18 July 2020 it was the administrative centre of its own Staryi Sambir Raion, which was merged into Sambir Raion when the number of raions in Lviv Oblast was cut to seven. Its population was estimated at about 6,440 in 2022. The area belonged to Przemysl Land of the Kingdom of Poland, passed to Austrian Galicia in 1772, and was later part of interwar Poland and then the Soviet Union; a town charter was granted in 1553 and a town hall built in 1668.