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Krakovets

Résumé
Krakovets (Краковець, Krakowiec (original spelling) also found on American immigration documents as Krakowicz and Krakowice) is an urban-type settlement in Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine. It lies on the Polish-Ukrainian border, roughly half way between Lviv in Ukraine and Kraków in Poland on the European route E40, hosting the Korczowa-Krakovets border crossing. Krakovets belongs to Yavoriv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population was estimated at . The first record mentioning the settlement dates from 1320. In 1425 the town received Magdeburg rights and in 1520 the status as town was confirmed. In 1590 Aleksander Ostrogski built the Krakowiec castle. The town became property of the Cetner, Potocki and Lubomirski families and remained a small strategic outpost protecting the core territories of Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and its capital Kraków from invasions of the Khazar Khaganate, Varangians, Pechenegs, Golden Horde, Nogais, Ottoman Empire, Tatars, Cossacks, Grand Duchy of Moscow and their successors. Until the Partitions of Poland in 1772 Krakowiec was part of the Przemyśl Land of the Ruthenian Voivodeship, part of Lesser Poland Province in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. During Partitions of Poland the town became part of Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1923 Krakowiec returned to Poland, but shortly after in 1939, according to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Krakowiec became victim of genocide, ethnocide and other crimes and atrocities detailed by Gestapo–NKVD conferences, e.g. the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia performed by Ukrainians and after the establishment of District of Galicia in 1941 The Holocaust (Shoah) of the Jews. After World War II, Krakowiec became part of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Soviet Union and was since known as Krakovets. In 1991, Krakovets became part of independent Ukraine.
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