Sudova Vyshnia

Sudova Vyshnia is a small city in the Yavoriv Raion of the Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine, about 50 km west of the regional capital Lviv. It is the seat of the Sudova Vyshnia urban hromada and had an estimated population of 6,470 in 2022. The town lies on the Shehyni to Lviv highway and on a railway line to Przemysl in Poland, and the river Vishnya flows westward through it on its way to the San. It is a market centre for the surrounding farmland and once kept a horse stud, with a hippodrome on its outskirts. The place is first recorded in the Galician-Volhynian Chronicle for 1230 as Vyshnia, received Magdeburg town rights in 1368, and gained the adjective Sudova (Polish Sadowa) in 1545 when it became the seat of the general sejmiks of the Ruthenian nobility. It passed to Habsburg Galicia in 1772, and today it is one of the centres of the Polish minority in Ukraine.