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Jaroslaw

Jaroslaw [] () is a town in south-eastern Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
, with 40,167 inhabitants, as of 30.06.2008. Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship

Subcarpathian Voivodeship

Subcarpathian Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland, or province, situated in the far south-east of Poland. Its administrative capital and largest city is Rzesz?w ....
(since 1999), previously in Przemysl Voivodeship

Przemysl Voivodeship

Przemysl Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1975–1998, superseded by the Subcarpathian Voivodeship....
(1975-1998). It is the capital of Jaroslaw County

Jaroslaw County

Jaroslaw County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine....
.

city was established by the Ukrainian

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
prince Yaroslav the Wise in the 11th century.

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Jaroslaw [] () is a town in south-eastern Poland

Poland

Subcarpathian Voivodeship

Przemysl Voivodeship

Jaroslaw County

Jaroslaw County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine....
.

History

The city was established by the Ukrainian

Ukraine

Magdeburg rights

Magdeburg Rights or Magdeburg Law were a set of German town laws regulating the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages granted with it by a local ruler....
by Polish prince Wladyslaw Opolczyk

Wladyslaw Opolczyk

Wladyslaw Opolczyk Wladyslaw, son of Bolko II Opolski, and a grandson of Wladyslaw I the Elbow-high, was of Poland Piast dynasty....
in 1375.

The city quickly developed as important trade centre and a port

Port

||-||-|-||-||-||-||-||-||-|}A port is a facility for receiving ships and transferring cargo. They are usually found at the edge of an ocean, sea, river, or lake....
on the San river

San River

The San is a river in southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, a tributary of the Vistula River, with a length of 433 km and a basin area of 16,861 km? ....
, reaching the period of its greatest prosperity in 16th and 17th century, with trade routes linking Silesia

Silesia

Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in present-day Poland, with parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas....
with Ruthenia

Ruthenia

Ruthenia is a geographic and culturo-ethnic name applied to the parts of Eastern Europe populated by Eastern Slavic peoples, as well as to the past Russian states that existed in these territories....
and Gdansk

Gdansk

Gdansk is the city at the centre of the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Poland. It is Poland's principal seaport as well as the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship....
with Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
coming through it and merchants from such distant countries as Spain, England

Kingdom of England

The Kingdom of England was, from 927 to 1707, a state in North-West Europe. The Kingdom of England spanned the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain and a number of smaller outlying islands?what is today the legal unit of England and Wales....
, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
, Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
and Persia arriving at the annual three week long fair

Fair

A fair is a gathering of people to display or trade produce or other goods, to parade or display animals and often to enjoy associated carnival or funfair entertainment....
on the feast of the Assumption

Assumption of Mary

The Roman Catholic Church teaches as Dogma that the Mary , "having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory." This means that Mary was transported into Heaven with her body and soul united....
. In 1574 a Jesuit college

College

File:Government college for Women Dhoke Kala Khan.JPGCollege is a term most often used today to denote an education institution. More broadly, it can be the name of any group of collegialitys, for example, an electoral college, a College of Arms or the College of Cardinals....
was established in Jaroslaw.

In the 1590s Tatars from the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
pillaged the surrounding countryside. (See Moldavian Magnate Wars

Moldavian Magnate Wars

The Moldavian Magnate Wars refer to the period at the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century when the magnates of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth intervened in the affairs of Principality of Moldavia, clashing with the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire for domination and influence over the principality....
, The Magnate Wars (1593-1617), Causes.) They were unable to overcome the city's fortification

Fortification

Fortifications are military constructions and buildings designed for defense in warfare and military bases. Humans have constructed defensive works for many thousands of years, in a variety of increasingly complex designs....
s, but their raids started to diminish the city's economic strength and importance. Outbreaks of bubonic plague

Bubonic plague

Plague is a deadly infectious disease caused by the Enterobacteriaceae Yersinia pestis . Plague is a zoonotic, primarily carried by rodents and spread to humans via fleas....
in the 1620s and the Swedish The Deluge in 1655-60 further undermined its prominence. In the Great Northern War

Great Northern War

The Great Northern War was a war in which the so-called Northern Alliance composed of Russia, Denmark-Norway, Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth and Saxony engaged Sweden to challenge them for the supremacy in the Baltic Sea....
of 1700-21 the region was repeatedly pillaged by Russian

Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
, Saxon

Saxony

The Free State of Saxony is a States of Germany of Germany. Located in the southeastern part of present-day Germany. It is the tenth-largest German state in area and the sixth largest in population , of Germany's sixteen states....
and Swedish

Swedish Empire

Sweden was, between 1611 and 1718, one of the great powers of Europe. In modern historiography this period is known as the Swedish Empire, or stormaktstiden ....
armies, causing the city to decline further.

Jaroslaw was under Austrian rule from the First Partition of Poland

First Partition of Poland

The First Partition of Poland or First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in 1772 as the first of partitions of Poland that ended the existence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795....
in 1772 until Poland regained independence in 1918. After the 2nd World War the city remained part of Poland. Poland's communist government expelled most of Jaroslaw's Ukrainian population, at first to Soviet

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
territories and later to territories transferred from Germany to Poland in 1944-45.

Sights

Old town

Market square

Remaining city fortifications
Corpus Cristi collegiate church
Greek Catholic Transfiguration church
Benedictines abbey

Sts. Nicolaus and Stanislaus the Bishop church, sacral art and fortifications

Dominican monastery

Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows

Underground tunnel system

Twin towns - Sister cities

Jaroslaw is twinned

Town twinning

Town twinning, also known as sister cities, is a concept whereby towns or city in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired, with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links between their inhabitants....
with:

Michalovce

Michalovce is a town on the Laborec river in eastern Slovakia, with a population around 40,000. It is the biggest town of the Michalovce District in the Ko?ice Region....
in Slovakia

Slovakia

Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....
(since 1998) Orange in France (since 2000) Dingelstädt

Dingelstädt

Dingelst?dt is a Thuringian city in the district of Eichsfeld in Germany....
in Germany (since 2001) Vyškov

Vyškov

Vy?kov is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 22,300 inhabitants....
in Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....
(since 2001)

Uzhhorod

Uzhhorod is a city located in western Ukraine, at the border with Slovakia and near the border with Hungary. It is the Capital of the Zakarpattia Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Uzhhorodskyi Raion within the oblast....
in Ukraine

Ukraine

Humenné

Humenn? is a town in the Pre?ov Region in eastern Slovakia and the second largest town of the historic Zempl?n region. It lies at the volcanic Vihorlat mountains and at the confluence of the Laborec and Cirocha Rivers....
in Slovakia

Slovakia

Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....
(since 2005) Yavoriv

Yavoriv

Yavoriv is a city located in the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the Capital city of the Yavorivsky Raion , and rests approximately 50 km west of the oblast capital, Lviv....
in Ukraine

Ukraine

Schönebeck

is a town in the Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the Elbe, approx. 14 km southeast of Magdeburg....
in Germany (pending ratification)

Jaroslaw

History

Sights

see also

Twin towns - Sister cities

External links