Bolekhiv

Bolekhiv lies at the foot of the Carpathians in Galicia, a region long associated with salt production. A salt works was established here in 1546, and King Sigismund III granted the town Magdeburg rights in 1603. Its inhabitants included Ruthenians, Polish Catholics and Jews. Tatars burned the town in 1670, after which its owner helped the Jewish community rebuild. Bolekhiv passed to the Habsburg monarchy in the first partition of Poland in 1772.