Zvenyhorodka

Zvenyhorodka lies in the wooded country of right-bank Ukraine. Its history reaches back to the era of Rus', and it is recorded under its present name in the late fourteenth century. In 1648 its inhabitants cast off Polish rule during the Cossack uprising, though the town returned to Poland after the truce of Andrusovo. Haidamaka bands captured it in 1737, 1743 and 1768. Following the second partition of Poland, Zvenyhorodka passed to Russia and received Magdeburg rights in 1795.