Rozhyshche

Rozhyshche lies on the Styr north of Lutsk in Volhynia. King Sigismund II Augustus granted it town rights in 1567, and a further charter in 1598 confirmed self-government and allowed two annual fairs. The settlement had a castle in the sixteenth century and formed part of the lands associated with the bishops of Lutsk. Its inhabitants were drawn into the Cossack wars of the mid-seventeenth century, when fighting spread across Volhynia.