Kosiv

Kosiv lies on the Rybnytsia in the Carpathian country of the Hutsuls. An older village of this name appears in a grant of 1424; in 1565 the starosta of Sniatyn founded a nearby town called Rukiv. Destroyed and later rebuilt, it took the name Kosiv, while the earlier village became Old Kosiv. The area's distinctive painted pottery developed from the eighteenth century and became closely associated with Hutsul life.