Savran

Savran lies in southeastern Podolia near the meeting of the Savranka and Southern Bug rivers. After the Union of Lublin in 1569, Savran came under Polish magnate families including the Koniecpolskis and later the Lubomirskis. The surrounding river country lay close to a contested frontier, and local Cossacks guided a Polish force to the Savran River during a campaign against Tatars in 1489. A Jewish community is recorded from the seventeenth century. Savran's location linked it to river routes and to the changing political relationships of southern Podolia.