Kaharlyk

Kaharlyk stands on the Rosava, a tributary of the Ros in the Dnipro basin, south of Kyiv. Its lands appear in written records in 1590, when King Sigismund III granted them to Prince Janusz Ostrogski. By the early seventeenth century Kaharlyk was the centre of a royal estate, and a wooden castle was built there in 1644. During the Cossack revolt it belonged to the Kaniv regiment. After the second partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1793, the town passed to the Russian Empire.