Yampil (, ) is a

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located in

Vinnytsia Oblast Vinnytsia Oblast (, ), also referred to as Vinnychchyna (), is an oblasts of Ukraine, oblast in central Ukraine. Its capital city, administrative center is Vinnytsia. The oblast has a population of History Vinnytsia Oblast, first established on ...

(

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of central

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). The city is the

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of the Yampil Raion (

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), housing the district's local administration buildings. Population:

Name

In addition to the Ukrainian (''Yampil''), in other languages the name of the city is and .

Geography

The city is located on the Dnister River, directly on the Ukrainian border with

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, near the commune of Cosăuți. It is located away from the Moldovan settlement

Soroca Soroca is a city and municipality in northern Moldova, situated on the Dniester River about north of Chișinău. It is the administrative center of the Soroca District. History It is known for its well-preserved stronghold, established by t ...

History

Yampil was first founded in the early 1600s. It was a

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, administratively located in the

Bracław Voivodeship The Bracław Voivodeship (; ; , ''Braclavśke vojevodstvo'') was a unit of administrative division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Created in 1566 as part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, it was passed to the Crown of the Kingdom of Pola ...

in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1792, the Polish 6th and 8th National Cavalry Brigades were garrisoned in Jampol. It was annexed by

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in the

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in 1793. In 1924, the settlement received the status of an

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. Prior to

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, the city had a large Jewish population. Particularly, in 1900, Yampil's

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ish population was 2,823. The city center consisted of a large number of Jewish-owned buildings and four

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s. The city also had a castle and river port. In 1985, it was named the administrative center of the surrounding Yampil Raion, one of the historical raions of Vinnytsia Oblast. The Yampil raion was abolished and its territory was merged into

Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion () is one of the six raions (districts) of Vinnytsia Oblast, located in southwestern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the city of Mohyliv-Podilskyi. Population: History On 18 July 2020, as part of the ...

on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Vinnytsia Oblast to six, and Yampil was no longer a raion-level administrative center after 1985.

Demographics

In the

2001 Ukrainian Census The 2001 Ukrainian census is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.2001 census:

Twin towns – sister cities

Yampil is twinned with: *

, Moldova

Notable people

* Israel Orenstein

References

{{Authority control Cities in Vinnytsia Oblast Cities of district significance in Ukraine Populated places on the Dniester River in Ukraine 17th-century establishments in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Populated places established in the 17th century Historic Jewish communities in Ukraine