Berdychiv

Berdychiv is an ancient metropolis within the Zhytomyr Oblast of northern Ukraine. Serving as the workplace of the Berdychiv Raion the city itself is of direct oblast sub ordinance, and does no longer belong to the district. It is 44km south of the oblast capital, Zhytomyr. Its population is approximately 76,711. In 1430, Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas granted the rights over the place to Kalinik, the procurator of Putyvl and Zvenigorod, and it's far believed that his servant named Berdich founded a khutor there.

However the etymology of the name Berdychiv isn't known. In 1483, Crimean Tatars destroyed the settlement. During the 1546 partition among Lithuania and Poland, the locations become indexed as a property of Lithuanian tycoon. According to the Union of Lublin Volhynia shaped a province of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. The fortified Carmelite monastery constructed from 1627 to 1642 with funding from Janusz Tyszkiewicz Lohojski, captured and plundered with the aid of Bohdan Khmelnitsky in 1647, become dissolved in 1864.