City in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
Place in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
Khyriv
(
Ukrainian
:
Хир?в
,
Polish
:
Chyrow
) is a
city
in
Sambir Raion
,
Lviv Oblast
(
region
) of
Ukraine
with a population of around
4,249 (2022 estimate).
[1]
It hosts the administration of
Khyriv urban hromada
, one of the
hromadas
of Ukraine.
[2]
Polish?Ukrainian War
1918?1919. Polish defenders in front of the Chyrow
Jesuit
college, where they were stationed in 1919
It became known principally for the celebrated
eponymous
Jesuit secondary boys school
founded there in 1886. The institution, which produced 6,000 alumni during its existence, ceased all activity when the then
Polish
town fell to Soviet forces in 1939.
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History
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Khyriv is first mentioned in documents from 1374. At that time, it was the private property of the
noble
Polish family of
Herburt
, and was part of the
Kingdom of Poland
's
Ruthenian Voivodeship
. In 1528 Chyrow, as it is called in Polish, Khyriv received
Magdeburg rights
, and three years later, the first
Roman Catholic
church
was founded there by
Andrzej Tarło
. The wooden church probably burned down during the
Great Northern War
, and in 1710, it was replaced by a brick structure. In 1740, a
synagogue
opened in the town.
[4]
For over 400 years Chyrow belonged to
Przemy?l Land
, as the property of the powerful landowning
Ossolinski
and
Mniszech
families. In 1772, following the
Partitions of Poland
, Chyrow was annexed by the
Habsburg Empire
, and remained in Austrian
Galicia
until late 1918. In 1872 a rail connection was established with a station. In the 1880s, a
state of the art
vast purpose-built complex was erected there for a College on the outskirts of the town by the Polish province of the
Society of Jesus
.
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By 1913 the population of Chyrow was 3,400.
During the
Polish?Ukrainian War
, Khyriv was the site of heavy Polish ? Ukrainian fighting from late 1918 into early 1919. The war was won by Poland, and until the 1939
Invasion of Poland
, Chyrow remained within the territory of the
Second Polish Republic
. According to the 1921 census, the population of Chyrow was 2,654. In the interbellum period, Chyrow formed part of Sambor County, in the
Lwow Voivodeship
. With the outbreak of the Second World War, the
Red Army
occupied the entire region in September 1939 until 1941, when it was seized by the German
Wehrmacht
until 1943, before being re-taken by forces of the
Soviet Union
. From 1944, the town and its surroundings was annexed by the USSR. Return of Khyriv to Poland was briefly considered following the
1951 Polish-Soviet Territorial Exchange
, but was dismissed following the death of Joseph Stalin.
[5]
With the
dissolution of the Soviet Union
in 1991, the town came under the jurisdiction of present-day
Ukraine
.
Until 18 July 2020, Khyriv belonged to
Staryi Sambir Raion
. The raion was abolished in July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Staryi Sambir Raion was merged into
Sambir
Raion.
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