Area 35.29 km² Local time Saturday 2:00 AM | First mentioned 1158 Population 10,100 (2016) | |
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Sniatyn (Ukrainian: Снятин, Polish: Śniatyn, Armenian: Սնիատին, Hebrew: שניאטין) is a city located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine along the Prut river. It is the administrative center of Sniatyn Raion (district), and is located at around 48°27′0″N 25°34′0″E. Population: 10,100 (2016 est.). In 2001, population was around 10,500.
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Map of Snyatyn, Ivano-Frankivska, Ukraine
In the interbellum period, it was a rail border crossing between Poland and Romania.
History
The first mention of the town is in 1158. Ksniatyn was named after Kostiantyn Stroslavich, a boyar and general of Yaroslav Osmomysl. The town was given the Magdeburg Rights in 1448. As a result of the first of Partitions of Poland (Treaty of St-Petersburg dated 5 July 1772, Sniatyn (and Galicia) was attributed to the Habsburg Monarchy.
For more details, see the article Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.
In 1939 Sniatyn was the temporary seat of American embassy in Poland, as the diplomatic personnel abandoned Warsaw after the first German Nazi bombings.
Nearly all of Sniatyn's Jewish population was murdered during the Holocaust. Many were shot and buried in the local forest. Some died from disease and starvation in the ghetto. Approximately 1500 people were sent, via railway, to the Nazi Belzec Concentration Camp in German occupied Poland.