Jarosław
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Jarosław is a town in south-eastern Poland, with 40,523 inhabitants (2004).
Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Przemyśl Voivodeship (1975-1998). It is the capital of Jarosław County.
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[edit] History
The city was established by the Ukrainian prince Yaroslav the Wise in the 11th century. It was granted Magdeburg rights by Władysław Opolczyk in 1375.
The city quickly developed as important trade center and a port of 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, Britain, Finland, Armenia and Persian arriving at the annual three week long fair on the feast of the Assumption. In 1574 a Jesuit collage was established in Jarosław.
Its significance diminished starting with the epidemics of bubonic plague in the 1620s and Tatar raids pillaging the countryside (although unable to attack the well fortified city) and later The Deluge. The city fell further during the Great Northern War when the region was repeatedly pillaged by Russian, Saxon and Swedish armies.
In course of the First Partition of Poland in 1772 Jarosław fell under Austrian rule, until Poland regained independence in 1918. After the 2nd World War the city remained a part of Poland while most of its Ukrainian population was expelled by the communist regime into soviet controlled territories and later to Polands regained territories in the west.
[edit] Sights
- Old town
- Market square
- 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
- Synagogues
[edit] Sister cities
Slovakia Michalovce 1998
France Orange 2000
Germany Dingelstädt 2001
Czech Republic Vyškov 2001
Ukraine Uzhhorod 2002- Slovakia Humenne 2005
- Ukraine Yavoriv 2006
- Germany Schönebeck pending ratification
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