Sniatyn ( uk, Сня́тин, translit=Sniatyn; pl, Śniatyn; ro, Sneatîn, older ; yi, שניאַטין) is a town located in Kolomyia Raion of

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вська о́бласть, translit=Ivano-Frankivska oblast), also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вщина), is an administrative divisions of Ukrain ...

, in western Ukraine along the Prut river. It is located at around . Sniatyn hosts the administration of Sniatyn urban hromada, 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. Population: . In 2001, population was around 10,500. In the interbellum period, it was a rail border crossing between Poland and Romania.

History

The first mention of the town is in 1158. Ksniatyn was named after Kostiantyn Stroslavich, a

boyar A boyar or bolyar was a member of the highest rank of the Feudalism, feudal nobility in many Eastern European states, including Kievan Rus', Bulgarian Empire, Bulgaria, Russian nobility, Russia, Boyars of Moldavia and Wallachia, Wallachia and ...

and general of Yaroslav Osmomysl. The town was given the Magdeburg Rights in 1448. As a result of the first of

Partitions of Poland The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 12 ...

(Treaty of St-Petersburg dated 5 July 1772, Sniatyn (and Galicia) was attributed to the Habsburg Monarchy. For more details, see the article Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. In 1939 Sniatyn was the temporary seat of American embassy in Poland, as the diplomatic personnel abandoned Warsaw after the first German Nazi bombings. Nearly all of Sniatyn's Jewish population was murdered during the Holocaust. Many were shot and buried in the local forest. Some died from disease and starvation in the ghetto. Approximately 1,500 people were sent to

Belzec Belzec (English: or , Polish: ) was a Nazi German extermination camp built by the SS for the purpose of implementing the secretive Operation Reinhard, the plan to murder all Polish Jews, a major part of the "Final Solution" which in total ...

. Until 18 July 2020, Sniatyn was the administrative center of Sniatyn Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast to six. The area of Sniatyn Raion was merged into Kolomyia Raion.

Gallery

File:Sniatyn Szewczenka 143 145 147 149 DSC 5253 26-252-0040.JPG, Shevchenko Street in Sniatyn File:Sniatyn Zabytki 08.jpg, Church of Ascension File:Sniatyn Zabytki 07.jpg, Roman Catholic church File:Снятин - вул. Шухевича-1.jpg, Church of Archangel Michael's Miracle at Colassai

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SNYATYN, (SNIATYN): A Jewish shtetl from the mid 16th century through the mid 1940s

{{Authority control Cities in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Stanisławów Voivodeship Shtetls Populated places on the Prut Magdeburg rights Cities of district significance in Ukraine Holocaust locations in Ukraine