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Country
  
Ukraine

First mentioned
  
1437

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Population
  
6,874 (2013)

Province
  
Lviv Oblast

Raion
  
Peremyshliany Raion

Magdeburg rights
  
1623

Area
  
4.65 km²

Local time
  
Monday 6:28 AM

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Weather
  
1°C, Wind W at 16 km/h, 84% Humidity

Peremyshliany (Ukrainian: Перемишляни, Polish: Przemyślany, Yiddish: פרימישלאן‎) is a town in Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It is administrative center of the Peremyshliany Raion. Population: 6,874 (2013 est.).

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Map of Peremyshlyany, Lvivska, Ukraine

Przemyslany, as the town is called in Polish, was first mentioned as a village in 1437. Until the Partitions of Poland (1772), it was part of Poland’s Ruthenian Voivodeship. In 1623, Przemyslany received Magdeburg rights. In 1772 - 1918, it belonged to Austrian Galicia, and in 1918, it returned to Poland. In the Second Polish Republic, it was the seat of a county in Tarnopol Voivodeship. The town had a Jewish population of 2,934 in 1900.

Famous natives

  • Naftule Brandwein, klezmer musician
  • Wojciech Filarski (1831 - 1898), Polish philosopher, rector of the Lwow University
  • bl. Omelian Kovch (1884–1944), Ukrainian priest and martyr murdered at the Majdanek death camp.
  • Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), psychoanalyst and natural scientist was born in the village of Dobrzanica (now Dobryanichi), in the Peremyshliany district.
  • Adam Daniel Rotfeld Polish diplomat and Foreign Minister.
  • Baruch Steinberg (1897-1940), Rabbi killed in Katyn Massacre

    • References

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