Pyriatyn

Pyriatyn stands on the Udai, among the river valleys of left-bank Ukraine. The Hypatian Chronicle mentions the town in 1155. It later belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and then to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1592 King Sigismund III granted Magdeburg rights through Prince Aleksander Wiśniowiecki, linking the town's renewal to the powerful family whose estates stretched across the region. After the uprising of 1648, Pyriatyn became a Cossack company town, first within the Kropyvna Regiment and later the Lubny Regiment. Its old market and churches remained the centre of the surrounding countryside.