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First written mention of Sokal comes from 1377. In 1424, it received Magdeburg rights from prince of Mazovia Ziemowit, and in 1462, the town became part of Belz Voivodeship, Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown. On August 2, 1519, a Polish - Lithuanian army under Hetman Konstanty Ostrogski lost here a battle with Crimean Tatars, after which the town was completely burned by the invaders. Mikolaj Sep-Szarzynski later dedicated one of his poems to this battle. The town remained in Poland until the first partition of Poland, when it was annexed by the Habsburg Empire, as part of Galicia. It was the capital of the Sokal district, one of the 78 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Austrian Galicia province (Crown land) in 1900.[1] After World War One, the fate of this province was disputed between Poland and Soviet Russia, until the Peace of Riga in 1921, attributing Eastern Galicia to Poland. In the Second Polish Republic, Sokal was the seat of a county in Lwow Voivodeship. Sokal lay in Polish territory until the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. From September 1939 until June 1941 (see Operation Barbarossa), it was part of the Soviet territory, who returned here in July 1944. Western part of the town (former village of Zhvirka) remained in Poland between 1944 and 1951 (see 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange). Before the Holocaust, Sokal had a Jewish population of 6,000, of whom only 30 survived. The Soviet army re-captured the town in July 1944.[2] In the early 17th century, a large Baroque monastery of the Bernardine monks, together with Roman Catholic church of Virgin Mary was built here. The complex is located in the district of Zhvirka, and until World War Two, it housed the painting of Our Lady of Sokal, which attracted Catholic pilgrims. Jan Ostrorog, one of the first Polish humanists was buried here. After the war, the painting was moved to a church in Hrubieszow, while the monastery was turned into a prison. On March 27, 2012, due to negligence of Ukrainian prison authorities, the historic complex almost completely burned.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 21:04:56 +0000

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