Sniatyn

Sniatyn stands on the Prut in Pokuttia, the borderland between Galicia and Moldavia. First mentioned in the historical record in 1158, the old town takes its name from Kostiantyn Stroslavich, a boyar and commander of Prince Yaroslav Osmomysl of Halych. Its place on the river put it on the approaches to the Carpathian foothills. The town received Magdeburg rights in 1448. Armenian inhabitants are recorded from the fifteenth century, and in 1628 King Sigismund III authorised an Armenian commune here. Sniatyn passed to the Habsburg monarchy in 1772.