Staryi Chortoryisk ( uk, Старий Чорторийськ, translit. ''Staryi Chortoryis'k'', pl, Czartorysk) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...

(''selo'') in north-western

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. It is located on the bank of the

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in the

Kamin-Kashyrskyi Raion Kamin-Kashyrskyi Raion ( uk, Камінь-Каширський район) is a raion in Volyn Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the town of Kamin-Kashyrskyi. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative refo ...

Volyn Oblast Volyn Oblast ( uk, Воли́нська о́бласть, translit=Volýnsʹka óblastʹ; also referred to as Volyn or Lodomeria) is an oblast (province) in northwestern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is Lutsk. Kovel is the westernmost town ...

. One of the most ancient settlements of

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, ''Chortoriysk'' (or ''Chertoryesk'') was first mentioned in 1100 in the Hypatian Chronicle

where it was recorded as having been passed to Prince David Igorevych (or ''Davyd Ihorevych'') of Volhynia (1087-1099), together with

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, Busk and

Ostroh Ostroh ( uk, Остро́г; pl, Ostróg) is a historic city located in Rivne Oblast (province) of western Ukraine, on the Horyn River. Ostroh is the administrative center of the Ostroh Raion (district). Administratively, Ostroh is incorporated ...

In the 13th century, it was claimed by the rulers of

Pinsk Pinsk ( be, Пі́нск; russian: Пи́нск ; Polish: Pińsk; ) is a city located in the Brest Region of Belarus, in the Polesia region, at the confluence of the Pina River and the Pripyat River. The region was known as the Marsh of Pinsk ...

, who built a tower in Chortoryisk resembling the famous Bela Vezha in Kamieniec. By the end of the 14th century, the town had become the seat of Algirdas's son Constantine (from whose son, Vasili Konstantinovich, the well-known Polish family of

Czartoryski The House of Czartoryski (feminine form: Czartoryska, plural: Czartoryscy; lt, Čartoriskiai) is a Polish princely family of Lithuanian- Ruthenian origin, also known as the Familia. The family, which derived their kin from the Gediminids dyna ...

is descended). On 26 August 1431 a truce was signed at Chortoryisk between the forces of

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and Lithuania, bringing to an end the brief Lutsk War between the two. The current village of Staryi Chortoryisk was established in 1900, in place of the ancient settlement. Staryi Chortoryisk was site of a major battle between the Russian and German army in

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. In both October 1915 and May 1919, there were major encounters between the two sides. Staryi Chortoryisk had a large Jewish population until World War I, when most of them fled to escape the fighting between the German and Russian army. Among the prominent natives is the world-famous economist

Rose Friedman Rose Director Friedman (; born Rose Director (December 1910 – 18 August 2009), was a free-market economist and co-founder of the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation. Biography Rose Friedman attended Reed College and then transferred to the ...

(wife of Nobel Prize winner economist

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), along with her brother, Law Professor

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who left for Oregon USA around 1913. The Directors were prominent members of the Jewish community in Staryi Chortoryisk . In addition, the famous Rubin (formerly Rabin) family is from Staryi Chortoryisk. The Polish playwright

Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa Francesca Ursula Radziwill (February 13, 1705, Chartorysk – May 23, 1753, Navahrudak), was a Polish writer and playwright, the first female writer on the territory of modern Poland and Belarus. She was the Princess (equivalent to Duchess), the ...

was born in Staryi Chortoryisk. The village's main landmark is the church of the Blackfriars, built in the Baroque style in 1741 to replace an earlier church from 1639.

References

{{Volyn Oblast Volhynian Voivodeship (1569–1795) Lutsky Uyezd Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939) Populated places established in the 11th century Villages in Kamin-Kashyrsky Raion