Novi Strilyscha
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Novi Strilyscha is small town in Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast is an oblast in western Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Lviv.-History:The oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on December 4, 1939...

 (province
Oblast
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) of western Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

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The first written mention of which dates from the year 1375, still just Strilyscha (now the village of Stari Strilyscha) who were on the verge of a border settlement between Galician
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 Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, of which it was the capital until the early 14th century, when the seat of the local princes was moved to Lviv...

 and Zvenyhorod principalities.

In 1513, new settlement was separated from Strilyscha and named Novi Strilyscha. Thanks to the convenient location on the trade route from Bibrka
Bibrka
Bibrka is a town in western Ukraine, located in the Lviv Oblast about 29 km southeast of Lviv on PI29.The town has been ruled at various points by the Kingdom of Poland, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austrian empire, the Austro-Hungarian empire, the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria,...

 to Rohatyn
Rohatyn
Rohatyn is a city located on the Hnyla Lypa River in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Rohatyn Raion .The current estimated population is around 8,800 .-History:...

 town began to grow, getting the right to hold four annual fairs and weekly markets. In the XVII century Novi Strilyscha even enjoyed municipal rights.

During the Soviet era to 1959, were subregional center in Drohobych Oblast
Drohobych Oblast
Drohobych Oblast , was an oblast in the Ukrainian SSR. It had a territory of 9.6 thousands of km³, and population of 853 thousand .-History:...

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Up to now there have preserved the XVII century church and the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. Nearby the village is a museum of UPA, dedicated hundreds of "Siromantsi" and native Strilyscha - Mykola Lebed
Mykola Lebed
Mykola Lebed , also known as Maksym Ruban, Marko or Yevhen Skyrba, was a Ukrainian political activist, Ukrainian nationalist and guerrilla fighter. He was among those tried, convicted, and imprisoned for the murder, in 1936, of Polish Interior Minister Bronislaw Pieracki. The court sentenced him to...

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