Tykhomel'

Tykhomel was a town of the Horyn country, first mentioned in the Kyivan Chronicle in 1152. By the later sixteenth century it was the centre of a small estate around a fortified manor. In 1616, at the request of Abram Seniuta, King Sigismund III permitted the foundation of a town with Magdeburg rights. A Tatar attack two years later burned Tykhomel and carried its inhabitants away into captivity. A tower-like chapel near the settlement is associated with the Seniuta family.