Solotvyn ( uk, Солотвин, pl, Sołotwina) is an

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

in Ivano-Frankivsk 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 ...

, 40 km from

Ivano-Frankivsk Ivano-Frankivsk ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вськ, translit=Iváno-Frankívśk ), formerly Stanyslaviv ( pl, Stanisławów ; german: Stanislau), is a city located in Western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk O ...

. Solotvyn hosts the administration of Solotvyn settlement 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. Its estimated population was . Solotvyn is on the

Bystrytsia of Solotvyn The Bystrytsia of Solotvyn ( uk, Бистриця Солотвинська) is a river in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of western Ukraine. It joins the Bystrytsia of Nadvirna just north of Ivano-Frankivsk creating the Bystrytsia River. Its name is ba ...

, the left of the two long headstreams of the

Bystrytsia River The Bystrytsia ( uk, Бистриця; pl, Bystrzyca) is a river, a right tributary of the Dniester which flows through Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Bystrytsia river is formed by confluence of '' Bystrytsia of Solotvyn'' and ...

(a tributary of the

Dniester The Dniester, ; rus, Дне́стр, links=1, Dnéstr, ˈdⁿʲestr; ro, Nistru; grc, Τύρᾱς, Tyrās, ; la, Tyrās, la, Danaster, label=none, ) ( ,) is a transboundary river in Eastern Europe. It runs first through Ukraine and th ...

), at the foot of the

Carpathian Mountains The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The range stretches ...

. In the seventeenth century it was named ''Krasnopil''. Until 18 July 2020, Solotvyn belonged to Bohorodchany 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 Bohorodchany Raion was merged into Ivano-Frankivsk Raion.

References

External links

Solotvyn in Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic Countries (Polish: Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich)

Jewish history
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photographs of Jewish sites in Solotvyn
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Jewish History in Galicia and BukovinaSolotvin Jewish Cemetery fully documented at Jewish Galicia and Bukovina ORG
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