Ratne

Ratne lies on the Turiia in the low, wooded country of western Volhynia. A border town mentioned in documents around the turn of the thirteenth century, it housed a princely garrison and a monastery. The Mongol invasion devastated it. Under Polish rule Ratne became a royal town of the Chełm land and received Magdeburg rights in the fifteenth century, giving its inhabitants a measure of municipal self-government.