Tetiiv

Tetiiv, also written Tetiyev in Russian, is a city in Bila Tserkva Raion in the Kyiv Region of Ukraine. It lies on both banks of the Roska river and has a station on the Koziatyn to Zhashkiv railway line. The town received Magdeburg rights from the Polish king Sigismund III Vasa in 1606 and was a private town of several noble families in the Braclaw Voivodeship. Jews settled there from the seventeenth century, and by 1897 they made up about ninety five percent of the population. Pogroms in 1919 and 1920 killed thousands of Jews, many of whom later emigrated, notably to Cleveland, Ohio. The city was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944. Until the administrative reform of July 2020 it was the centre of Tetiiv Raion, and it now hosts the administration of Tetiiv urban hromada. Its population was estimated at 12,640 in 2022.