Klymets ( uk, Климе́ць, pl, Klimiec;

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: ''Klimetz'') is a selo (village) in Stryi Raion,

Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a wikt:Appendix:Glossary#relational, relational adjective—in Englis ...

, of western

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. More specifically, it is located in the Ukrainian Carpathians, within the limits of the

Eastern Beskids The Eastern Beskids or Eastern Beskyds ( uk, Східні Бескиди; pl, Beskidy Wschodnie; rue, Выходны Бескиды; ro, Beskizii Orientali; russian: Восточные Бескиды) are a geological group of mountain ranges o ...

(

Skole Beskids The Skole Beskids ( uk, Сколівські Бескиди; pl, Beskidy Skolskie) is a mountain range in western Ukraine, belonging to the set of ranges called the Eastern Beskids, within the Outer Eastern Carpathians. The mountains are compos ...

) in southwestern part of the oblast. Klymets belongs to

Kozova rural hromada Kozova (Ukrainian: Козова; Polish: ''Kozowa''; Russian: Козо́ва) is an urban-type settlement in Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast (province) of western Ukraine, in the area historically known as Galicia, east of Berezhany, some west ...

, one of the

hromada A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...

s of Ukraine. It is situated from the regional center

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...

, from the district center

Skole Skole ( uk, Ско́ле) is a town in Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Skole urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: . History The first official date recorded for Skole was in ...

, and from Uzhhorod. Local government — Klymetska village council.

History

The first written record indicates that the date of foundation is considered to be 1565. There is other information: the village was established by German colonialists, which in Austrian times founded a colony

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(German for ''Karl's village''). The colony existed before the Second World War.

Przemyśl Land Przemyśl Land ( pl, Ziemia przemyska) was an administrative unit of Kyivan Rus, Kingdom of Poland and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It existed since the integration of Principality of Peremyshl into Kingdom of Ruthenia and until 1772, and w ...

s, including Skole District mercilessly suffered from attacks that have been from Tatar-Mongol invasion of

Kievan Rus' Kievan Rusʹ, also known as Kyivan Rusʹ ( orv, , Rusĭ, or , , ; Old Norse: ''Garðaríki''), was a state in Eastern and Northern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century.John Channon & Robert Hudson, ''Penguin Historical Atlas of ...

at this time. The massive flight of peasants was observed at the beginning of the 18th century. Klymets Panoramic View 2011

At the beginning of the 18th century, during the

Austrian Empire The Austrian Empire (german: link=no, Kaiserthum Oesterreich, modern spelling , ) was a Central-Eastern European multinational great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs. During its existence, ...

(since 1867 Austria-Hungary), Skole District and other regions of the Austrian-held Carpathians began to colonize German craftsmen (see

Galician Germans The Galician Germans (german: Galiziendeutsche) were ethnic German population living in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in the Austrian Empire, established in 1772 as a result of the First Partition of Poland, and after World War I in the fo ...

). This led to the development of industry and trade in land. During the war, Klymets was situated at the border between Hungary and Ukraine. According to field research, approximately 12 Jews were murdered by the Germans in the summer of 1942. Until 18 July 2020, Klymets belonged to

Skole Raion Skole Raion ( uk, Сколівський район) was a raion in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center was Skole. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the nu ...

. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Skole Raion was merged into Stryi Raion.

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(Slownik geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego i innych krajow slowianskich. Tom XII. Warszawa, 1886)

Literature

* uk, Історія міст і сіл УРСР : Львівська область. – К. : ГРУРЕ, 1968 р. Page 716. {{Skole Raion Villages in Stryi Raion Holocaust locations in Ukraine