Kopychyntsi

Kopychyntsi is a small city in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, in western Ukraine, known in Polish as Kopyczynce and in Yiddish as Koptchintz, and it hosts the administration of Kopychyntsi urban hromada. Its population is given as about 7,000, with 13,965 in the wider municipality. The article places its first mention as a village in the Polish county of Trembowla in the fourteenth century, and it received a city charter in 1564. During the Khmelnytsky Uprising a Cossack and Tatar army seized the town in 1648, and the Battle of Kopychyntsi of 12 May 1651 ended in defeat for the Cossacks under the hetman Marcin Kalinowski. The Treaty of Buchach of 1672 ceded it to the Ottoman Empire, it returned to Poland after the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699, and after the Partitions of Poland it belonged to the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. In November 1918 a Ukrainian military committee in the town proclaimed the authority of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. It is the birthplace of the chess grandmaster Vasyl Ivanchuk, the malaria researcher Israel Jacob Kligler and the Israeli politician Pinhas Lavon.