Yezupil
Yezupil
Єзупіль | |
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Town | |
Country | Ukraine |
Oblast | Ivano-Frankivsk |
Area | |
• Total | 28,220 km2 (10,900 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 3,026 |
Website | Ukrainian Parliament website |
Turn of the century wies/village Jezupol (former Zhovten > Tysmennytskij raion/district > Ivano-Frankivska Oblast/region [formerly Stanislawow woj.] ) was a fair size village ( with its own Jewish Kahil and RC & GC Churches) in Galicia/Halychyna > Austro-Hungarian Empire. Current zip code for village is 77431.
It is appx 7 km from Halych, the former capital of the Halych-Vohlynian Principality in the 10/12th centuries. Up until the 16th century it was a village named Tzaishibesi, which had a wooden fortress. When the fort was destroyed during one of the Tatar incursions, Jacob Pototski, Breslau Wojiwoda and private owner of the village, renamed it Jesupol, after Jesus. In 1598, a fortress & Dominican monastery was erected, and the town developed next to it. The monastery had a rich and famous library of ancient scriptures and prints.
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