Peczeniżyn County (, ) was a former Polish

county A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...

(Powiat) in the

Stanisławów Voivodeship Stanisławów Voivodeship () was an administrative district of the interwar Poland (1920–1939). It was established in December 1920 with an administrative center in Stanisławów. The voivodeship had an area of 16,900 km2 and comprised twe ...

in Southeastern

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. The county was established in 1921 as a direct successor of the

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Peczeniżyn District (, ). On April 1, 1929, the county was liquidated and its territory was incorporated into the neighbouring Kołomyja County.

History

Ukrainian administration sprang up on the territory of the former

Peczeniżyn District following the proclamation of the

West Ukrainian People's Republic The West Ukrainian People's Republic (; West Ukrainian People's Republic#Name, see other names) was a short-lived state that controlled most of Eastern Galicia from November 1918 to July 1919. It included major cities of Lviv, Ternopil, Kolom ...

on November 1, 1918. The local Ukrainian government in

Pechenizhyn Pechenizhyn (; ; ) is a Populated places in Ukraine#rural settlements, Rural settlement in Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, west of Kolomyia. It hosts the administration of Pechenizhyn settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Uk ...

(), headed by judge Genyk-Berezovskyi came to be known as the "Pechenizhyn Republic"—lasting for 3 months. Under

ZUNR The West Ukrainian People's Republic (; see other names) was a short-lived state that controlled most of Eastern Galicia from November 1918 to July 1919. It included major cities of Lviv, Ternopil, Kolomyia, Drohobych, Boryslav, Stanyslaviv ...

administration, lieutenant Simenovych was appointed as county commissioner. Ukrainian administration in

came to an end with the

Romanian occupation of Pokuttya The Romanian occupation of Pokuttia () took place in early 1919, when, as a result of alliances concluded between Romania and Poland, the former entered the southeastern corner of the former Austro-Hungarian ruled province of Galicia. During ...

in early 1919, when Romanian troops occupied the territory of the former Austrian district. In August that same year administration over the district was transferred to

. Under the

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, the county capital Peczeniżyn struggled economically, with the Peczeniżyn oil refinery having to cease operations in 1928 due to depletion of oil reserves. Ultimately, on April 1, 1929, Peczeniżyn County was liquidated and annexed in its entirety into the neighbouring Kołomyja County.

References

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