Yavoriv

Yavoriv lies west of Lviv on the old merchant road towards Jarosław. First recorded in 1436, it became a Polish royal town and received Magdeburg rights from Sigismund II Augustus in 1569. King John III Sobieski favoured it as a residence: here he signed a treaty with France in 1675 and ratified the Holy League in 1684, after his victory over the Ottomans at Vienna. The town passed to the Habsburg monarchy in 1772.