Busk

Busk stands near the Western Bug, whose name it shares. The Primary Chronicle mentions it in 1097 amid a dispute between Rus' princes over the borderlands of Halych and Volhynia. Duke Siemowit IV of Masovia granted it a town charter in 1411. Busk later became the centre of its own district within Belz Voivodeship; its Jewish community built a synagogue in 1502. The first partition of Poland brought the town under Habsburg rule in 1772.