Zhydachiv

Zhydachiv stands on the Stryi near its confluence with the Dniester. The rivers made it a trading centre of the Galician lands, and by the late fourteenth century its central settlement had defences, a market square and several churches. King Władysław Jagiełło granted it Magdeburg rights in 1393. The town remained under Polish rule until the first partition of Poland, when it passed to Austria in 1772.