Buchach

Buchach is a city on the Strypa River, a tributary of the Dniester, in Chortkiv Raion of Ternopil Oblast in Western Ukraine, about 135 kilometres south-east of Lviv in the historic region of Halychyna, or Galicia. It hosts the administration of the Buchach urban hromada. Its rulers have changed many times: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Habsburg monarchy and Austria-Hungary, the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Second Polish Republic and the Ukrainian SSR. In 1672 the Treaty of Buchach was signed here between the Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire. Its population was estimated at 12,171 in 2022.