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Kuty (German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
: Kutten, Polish
Polish language

Polish , an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic languages. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and it has a regular orthography....
: Kuty, Romanian
Romanian language

Romanian or Daco-Romanian ; self-designation: limba rom?na, ) is a Romance languages spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova....
: Cuturi) is a town
Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement is an official designation for a certain type of urban localities used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union....
 in Ukraine
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....
, on the Cheremosh river, located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast is an administrative divisions of Ukraine in western Ukraine. Its capital city is Ivano-Frankivsk.In the past the area was known as Stanislaw?w Voivodship and Stanislav Oblast ....
. It is notable as one of the historical centres and the namesake of a historical region of Pokuttya
Pokuttya

Pokuttya or Pokuttia is a historical area of Central Europe, between upper Prut and Cheremosh rivers, in modern Ukraine. Historically it was a culturally-distinct area inhabitated by Romanians and Ukrainians on the previously-unpopulated borderlands between the lands of Lviv and Halych....
. Population is 4,272 (2001).

The town was first mentioned in 1469 as a village of Jan Odrowaz, the archbishop of Lviv
Lviv

Lviv is a major city in western Ukraine.It is regarded as one of the main Ukrainian culture. In 2001, it had 725,000 inhabitants, of whom 88 per cent were Ukrainians, 9 per cent Russians and 1 per cent Poles....
 and a personal advisor to several Polish kings. With time the settlement grew and in 1715 Jan Potocki
Jan Potocki

Count Jan Nepomucen Potocki was a Poland nobleman, Polish Army captain of engineers, ethnology, Egyptology, linguistics, traveler, adventurer and author whose life and exploits made him a legendary figure in his homeland....
, the voivod of Kiev granted it with a city charter.






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Kuty (German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
: Kutten, Polish
Polish language

Polish , an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic languages. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and it has a regular orthography....
: Kuty, Romanian
Romanian language

Romanian or Daco-Romanian ; self-designation: limba rom?na, ) is a Romance languages spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova....
: Cuturi) is a town
Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement is an official designation for a certain type of urban localities used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union....
 in Ukraine
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....
, on the Cheremosh river, located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast is an administrative divisions of Ukraine in western Ukraine. Its capital city is Ivano-Frankivsk.In the past the area was known as Stanislaw?w Voivodship and Stanislav Oblast ....
. It is notable as one of the historical centres and the namesake of a historical region of Pokuttya
Pokuttya

Pokuttya or Pokuttia is a historical area of Central Europe, between upper Prut and Cheremosh rivers, in modern Ukraine. Historically it was a culturally-distinct area inhabitated by Romanians and Ukrainians on the previously-unpopulated borderlands between the lands of Lviv and Halych....
. Population is 4,272 (2001).

The town was first mentioned in 1469 as a village of Jan Odrowaz, the archbishop of Lviv
Lviv

Lviv is a major city in western Ukraine.It is regarded as one of the main Ukrainian culture. In 2001, it had 725,000 inhabitants, of whom 88 per cent were Ukrainians, 9 per cent Russians and 1 per cent Poles....
 and a personal advisor to several Polish kings. With time the settlement grew and in 1715 Jan Potocki
Jan Potocki

Count Jan Nepomucen Potocki was a Poland nobleman, Polish Army captain of engineers, ethnology, Egyptology, linguistics, traveler, adventurer and author whose life and exploits made him a legendary figure in his homeland....
, the voivod of Kiev granted it with a city charter. Two churches were also founded for the local Uniates and Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
ns. Thanks to fast growth and the proximity to Bukovina
Bukovina

Bukovina is a historical region on the northern slopes of the northeastern Carpathian Mountains and the adjoining plains. It is currently split between Romania and Ukraine....
, the town soon became a seat of starost of the land of Halych
Halych

Halych is a historic city on the Dniester River in western Ukraine. The town gave its name to the historic province and kingdom of Galicia , of which it was the capital until the early 14th century, when the seat of the local princes was moved to Lviv....
 and one of the administrative centres of the Ruthenian Voivodship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth was one of the largest and most populous countries in 16th and 17th-century Europe, formed by a Union of Lublin of Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1569....
.

The town remained a personal property of the family of Potoccy until the partitions of Poland
Partitions of Poland

The Partitions of Poland or Partitions of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in the second half of the 18th century and ended the existence of the Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth....
. In 1772, however, it fell under Austrian administration and on May 1, 1782 Kuty lost its town privileges. As a result growth was halted and Kuty remained a provincial town inhabited mostly by Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish and Armenian merchants, without much significance. In 1849 the town had roughly 3700 inhabitants, in 1880, 6300 and in late 1920s - 8000. Around that time the town was linked with the rest of Galicia
Galicia (Central Europe)

Galicia is a historical region in East Central Europe, currently divided between Poland and Ukraine, named after Ukra?ni?n city of Halych.The nucleus of historic Galicia is formed of three regions of western Ukraine: Lvivska oblast, Ternopilska oblast and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast....
 by the Kolomyja
Kolomyja

Kolomyja may refer to:*Kolomyia, Ukraine - Kolomyja in Polish*Kolomyja, Podlaskie Voivodeship ...
-Czerniowce railroad. However, as both Galicia and Bukovyna were under Austrian rule, the town could not capiltalize on its proximity to the border.

After the collapse of the Central Powers in 1918 the town was briefly under control of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. However, soon it was seized by Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
 and then passed to 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....
. The town became the most important center of Armenian
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
 minority in Poland as well as one of the main border crossings between Poland and Romania.

It was there that the Polish president Ignacy Moscicki
Ignacy Moscicki

Ignacy Moscicki was a Poland politician and chemist, List of Presidents of Poland . As of 2008 he remained the longest-serving President in country, spending 13 years in office ....
 spent his last days in Poland before he crossed the border into exile
Polish government in Exile

File:Herb Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej .pngThe Polish Government in exile was the government of Poland after History of Poland at the start of World War II ....
 during the Polish Defensive War
Invasion of Poland (1939)

The Invasion of Poland in 1939 precipitated World War II. It was carried out by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak invasion of Poland contingent....
 of 1939. Until September 20, 1939 the town was defended by the Polish Army. Among the last soldiers to be killed by the Red Army
Red Army

The Red Army was the armed force first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and, in 1922, became the army of the Soviet Union....
 in heavy fights for the bridge across the Cheremosh river was a notable Polish writer, Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz
Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz

Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz was a Poland journalist and author of over a dozen popular novels. The best known, which in Poland became a byword for fortuitous careerism, was The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma ....
. After Kuty was annexed by the USSR, the area was administered by Soviet Ukraine. Since 1991 it is a part of Ukraine
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....
.

Notable people

  • Edmund Charaszkiewicz
    Edmund Charaszkiewicz

    Edmund Kalikst Eugeniusz Charaszkiewicz was a Poland military intelligence who specialized in guerrilla warfare. Between the World Wars, he helped establish Poland's interbellum borders in conflicts over territory with Poland's neighbors....
  • Eliasz Kuziemski (1922–2000), Polish actor
  • Jaffa Zins (*1928), Israeli writer
  • Vira Vovk
    Vira Vovk

    Vira Ostapivna Selianska , pen name Vira Vovk ,  ? Ukrainian writer, critic and translator living in Brazil. She writes in Ukrainian language, German language and Portuguese language....
     Ukrainian writer


Nearby towns

  • Kosiv
    Kosiv

    Kosiv is a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. It is the Capital city of the Kosivsky Raion .Initially a small Hutsul settlement with a remnants of a small castle destroyed by the Turks....
    , Galicia
  • Vyzhnytsia
    Vyzhnytsia

    Vyzhnytsia is a town located on the Cheremosh River in the Chernivtsi Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the Capital city of the Vyzhnytskyi Raion ....
    , Bukovyna


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