Tysmenytsia

Tysmenytsia is an old town of the Galician borderlands, first recorded in 1143. King Casimir IV granted it Magdeburg rights in 1449, but its position near Poland's unsettled southern frontier exposed it to Tatar and Wallachian raids. Armenian merchants had warehouses here by about 1540, and the Potocki family later invited more to settle. A Dominican monastery and school served the Catholic community; the monastery was destroyed in 1676 and rebuilt two years later. An Armenian church opened in 1759.