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Jarosław [jaˈrɔswaf] (Yiddish: יאַרעסלאָוו-Yareslov, Ukrainian: Ярослав) is a town in south-eastern Poland, with 40,167 inhabitants, as of 30.06.2008.[1] Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Przemyśl Voivodeship (1975-1998). It is the capital of Jarosław County.
[edit] History
The city was established by the Ukrainian prince Yaroslav the Wise in the 11th century. It was granted Magdeburg rights by Polish prince Władysław Opolczyk in 1375.
The city quickly developed as important trade centre and a port on the San river, reaching the period of its greatest prosperity in 16th and 17th century, with trade routes linking Silesia with Ruthenia and Gdańsk with Hungary coming through it and merchants from such distant countries as Spain, England, Finland, Armenia and Persia arriving at the annual three week long fair on the feast of the Assumption. In 1574 a Jesuit college was established in Jarosław.
In the 1590s Tatars from the Ottoman Empire pillaged the surrounding countryside. (See Moldavian Magnate Wars, The Magnate Wars (1593-1617), Causes.) They were unable to overcome the city's fortifications, but their raids started to diminish the city's economic strength and importance. Outbreaks of bubonic plague in the 1620s and the Swedish The Deluge in 1655-60 further undermined its prominence. In the Great Northern War of 1700-21 the region was repeatedly pillaged by Russian, Saxon and Swedish armies, causing the city to decline further.
Jarosław was under Austrian rule from the First Partition of Poland in 1772 until Poland regained independence in 1918. After the 2nd World War the city remained part of Poland. Poland's communist government expelled most of Jarosław's Ukrainian population, at first to Soviet territories and later to territories transferred from Germany to Poland in 1944-45.
[edit] Sights
House of Orsetties family
- Old town
- Remaining city fortifications
- Corpus Cristi collegiate church
- Greek Catholic Transfiguration church
- Benedictines abbey
- Sts. Nicolaus and Stanislaus the Bishop church, sacral art and fortifications
- Dominican monastery
- Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows
- Underground tunnel system
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Jarosław is twinned with:[2]
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Coordinates: 50°01′N 22°40′E / 50.017, 22.667
Poland
Subcarpathian
