Torhovytsia

Torhovytsia lies on the Syniukha River, within the Southern Bug basin, on the old steppe frontier. Archaeological remains here recall a Golden Horde settlement of the fourteenth century. The place is best known by its Polish name, Targowica, for the confederation proclaimed there in 1792 by Polish magnates opposing the Constitution of 3 May. Its founding act had been signed in St Petersburg under Russian patronage, and Russian intervention followed.