Zalishchyky

Zalishchyky occupies a striking bend of the Dniester, with the river curling around the town on three sides. In the eighteenth century it belonged to Stanisław Poniatowski, father of the future Polish king. The settlement obtained the privilege of holding four annual fairs in 1754 and received Magdeburg town rights in 1766. It passed to the Habsburg monarchy in the first partition of Poland in 1772.