Berezhany

Berezhany is a small city on the Zolota Lypa river in the Ternopil Raion of Ternopil Oblast, in the historical region of Galician Podolia in western Ukraine, about 50 kilometres from the oblast centre of Ternopil. Its 2022 population was estimated at about 17,000. The first written mention dates from 1375, when the village then in the Kingdom of Poland was granted to a Ruthenian boyar, and the first certain mention comes from a 1469 survey of the royal domain. On 19 March 1530 King Sigismund I of Poland granted the settlement a city charter modelled on Magdeburg Law, at the wish of the noble Sieniawski family, who planned it as a family seat. Austria annexed it in 1772, it became a district centre of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in 1781, and a grammar school opened there in 1805. The city lies roughly 400 metres above sea level and today hosts the administration of the Berezhany urban hromada.