Kolomyya

Kolomyia or Kolomyya, formerly called Kolomea, is a town located on the Prut River in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. It is administratively incorporated as a metropolis of oblast significance and serves because the administrative centre of the encircling Kolomyia Raion, which it is administratively not part of. The town rests about midway between Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernivtsi, in the centre of the ancient area of Pokuttya, with which it stocks a whole lot of its history. The populace is 61,210. The town is a high-quality railroad hub, in addition to an commercial centre.

It is a centre of Hutsul lifestyle. At the turn of the 20^th century the metropolis changed into the most populous metropolis in Stanislawow Voivodeship. The agreement of Kolomyia became first mentioned by using the Hypatian Chronicle in 1240 and the Galician Volhynian Chronicle in 1241 a time of the Mongol invasion of Rus'. Initially part of Kievan Rus', it later belonged to one among its successor states, the principality of Halych-Volhynia. On the order of Boroldai, the city citadel was burnt down in 1259.