Zbarazh
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Ternopil Oblast
Ternopil Oblast is an oblast' of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Ternopil, through which flows the Seret River, a tributary of the Dnister.-Geography:...
(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...
. It is the administrative center
Capital City
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of the Zbarazh Raion (district
Raion
A raion is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet countries. The term, which is from French rayon 'honeycomb, department,' describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is commonly translated in English as "district"...
), and is located in the historic region of Galicia.
The current estimated population is around 13,000.
History
First attested in 1211 as a strong Ruthenian fortress, Zbarazh became a seat of the Gediminid Princes Zbarazski towards the end of the 14th century. Ruins of the original castle are extant in the vicinity of modern Zbarazh.The new Zbarazh Castle
Zbarazh Castle
Zbarazh Castle was a fortified defense stronghold. Nowadays it dominates the crests of the Zamkova Hills of Ternopil Oblast in Western Ukraine next to the city's central plaza that was not in so distant past surrounded by marshland...
was designed for Prince Jeremi Wiśniowiecki
Jeremi Wisniowiecki
Jeremi Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki was a notable member of the aristocracy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Prince at Wiśniowiec, Łubnie and Chorol and a father of future Polish king Michał I...
in a post-Palladian Italian idiom similar to Scamozzi
Vincenzo Scamozzi
thumb|250px|Portrait of Vincenzo Scamozzi by [[Paolo Veronese]]Vincenzo Scamozzi was a Venetian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Republic of Venice area in the second half of the 16th century...
's by the Dutch architect van Peyen in 1626–31. The castle was partly rebuilt in the 18th century.
Zbarazh preserves several remarkable churches, notably the Saviour Church (1600) and the Bernardine Monastery (1627).
The town formerly had a sizable Jewish population (about 3000 in the 1931 census) that was wiped out during the Holocaust, in June–July 1943. Notable Jewish residents included Rabbi Zev Wolf
Zev Wolf
Zev Wolf of Zbaraz was the third son of Rabbi Yechiel Michel of Zlotshov, known as "The Maggid of Zlotshov"....
, the singer Velvel Zbarjer
Velvel Zbarjer
Velvel Zbarjer , birth name Benjamin Wolf Ehrenkrantz , a Galician Jew, was a Brody singer. Following in the footsteps of Berl Broder, his "mini-melodramas in song" were precursors of Yiddish theater.Born in Zbarazh, Galicia, he moved to Romania in 1845...
and the author Ida Fink
Ida Fink
Ida Fink 1 November 1921 – 27 September 2011) was an Israeli Polish-language Jewish author who wrote about the Holocaust.-Biography:Ida Fink was born in Zbaraż, Poland in 1 November 1921. Her father was a physician, and her mother worked as a teacher in a local school. She was a student of...
.
Zbarazh is one of the settings of Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. A Polish szlachcic of the Oszyk coat of arms, he was one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his...
's novel With Fire and Sword
With Fire and Sword
With Fire and Sword is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1884. It is the first volume of a series known to Poles as the Trilogy, followed by The Deluge and Fire in the Steppe , also translated as Colonel Wolodyjowski...
(1884) in which he gives a detailed description of the famous Siege of Zbarazh
Siege of Zbarazh
The Siege of Zbarazh was a 1649 battle of the Khmelnytsky Uprising.The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces held their positions besieged in the Zbarazh Castle until in the aftermath of Battle of Zboriv and the Treaty of Zboriv the hostilities paused and the siege ended. These events were...
.
People
- Ida FinkIda FinkIda Fink 1 November 1921 – 27 September 2011) was an Israeli Polish-language Jewish author who wrote about the Holocaust.-Biography:Ida Fink was born in Zbaraż, Poland in 1 November 1921. Her father was a physician, and her mother worked as a teacher in a local school. She was a student of...
,(1921-2011) Israeli-Polish writer - Dmytro Klyachkivsky, (1894-1945) known as Klim Savur, Ukrainian nationalist insurgent commander
- Ivan PraskoIvan PraskoBishop Ivan Prasko was the eparch of Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania for the Ukrainian Catholic Church.He was born in Ternopil, Ukraine. He studied at the Theological Academy in Lviv, and then in Rome at the Pontifical College Damascenum and the Pontifical University Urbanianum. He was...
,(1914-2001) Ukrainian-Australian Greek-Catholic bishop - Zev WolfZev WolfZev Wolf of Zbaraz was the third son of Rabbi Yechiel Michel of Zlotshov, known as "The Maggid of Zlotshov"....
, (?-1822) rabbi