Terebovlia

Terebovlia was a princely centre of Rus', first mentioned in the chronicle of 1097. Its lands stretched across southeastern Galicia towards Podolia and Bukovina. In later centuries the castle above the town formed part of the Polish frontier's defences against attacks from the south and east.

Rebuilt in the fourteenth century, the fortress guarded a town repeatedly struck by Tatars. Bernard Pretwicz, a notable commander against Tatar raids, held the office of starosta here in the sixteenth century. Severyn Nalyvaiko's Cossacks plundered the town in 1594. During the Ottoman war of 1675, attackers destroyed Terebovlia but a small Polish garrison and townspeople held the castle until King John III Sobieski came to their relief. The fortress was destroyed during another Ottoman invasion in 1688.