Vilshana

Vilshana lies near the meeting of the Vilshanka and Sula, in the wooded river country west of Sumy. Local tradition connects its foundation with Cossacks and gives its name a meaning tied to the love of freedom. In the seventeenth century Vilshana and nearby Nedryhailiv lay on a contested frontier: during the conflicts surrounding Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky, Tatar forces attacked both settlements, and Cossacks and townspeople resisted them.