Smila

Smila lies near the Tiasmyn River in the lands west of the Dnieper. A settlement was established here by the early 1540s on land granted to the Cherkasy noble Yasko Tymkevych. In 1648 Smila became a company centre of the Chyhyryn Cossack regiment. The Lubomirski family acquired the estate in 1722; during the Koliivshchyna of 1768 rebels captured the town and destroyed its castle. Smila received Magdeburg rights in 1773 and passed to Russia in 1793.