Zhvanets ( uk, Жванець) is a village (a ''Village#Ukraine, selo'') in Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion (Raions of Ukraine, district) of Khmelnytskyi Oblast in Western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Zhvanets rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The village's population was 1,529 as of the Ukrainian Census (2001), 2001 Ukrainian census.Zhvanets
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History

Zhvanets was first mentioned in 1431, when the knight Svychko (or Svichka) received this settlement from King Władysław II Jagiełło. In the 15th century, the Zhvanetsky Castle was built, which was repeatedly rebuilt in the 16th and 17th centuries and was significantly destroyed during the 20th century. In 1620, the Polish–Ottoman War (1620–21), Turks and Tatars invaded Podillya having destroyed the fortress. The following year, 40,000 troops led by a Ukrainian Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny joined Zhvanets and took part in the Battle of Khotyn (1621), Khotyn War. In 1646, King Władysław IV Vasa granted Zhvanets the Magdeburg rights. In the autumn of 1653, the troops of John II Casimir Vasa, Jan II Casimir and Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi met near the city during Khmelnytsky Uprising, Khmelnytskyi Uprising resulting in the Battle of Zhvanets.

Notable people

*Corinne Chochem (1905-1990), Jewish American choreographer, , born in Zhvanets *Dov Karmi (1905–1962), architect in British Mandate Palestine and Israel, born in Zhvanets

See

* Battle of Zhvanets

External links

Zhvanets in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993)

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304214844/http://www.borderoftheculturas.archeo.uw.edu.pl/strona,ZHVANETS Zhvanets] *
Zhvanets village council

References

{{Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion Villages in Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion