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Scanned from the Berezhany City Tour Booklet
by Roman Zakharii, 24 January 2001
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The deer is also on the coat of arms of Berzehany. The wavy
line symbolizes Zolota Lypa river which flows throuh Berezhany,
and yellow and blue colours symbolize national colours of
Ukraine. It is modern Berezhany flag. I scanned it from the
Berezhany City Tour Booklet, published this year.
Roman Zakharii, 24 January 2001
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from the site of Ukrainian
Heraldry
From the site of Ukrainian
Heraldry:
"The emblem of the Austrian period looked like a per fess
shield with gules and azure shield. In the upper part there was
an argent deer courant to the dexter side."
From <www.uio.no/~romanz/berezhany.htm>:
"Berezhany's Coat of Arms - a forest deer on the blue
background (it is a Austrian pre 1918 version of the town's coat
of arms, the modern version is usually without the upper red
part. Red and blue were the colours of flag
of the Kingdom of Galicia, when it was part of
Austrohungarian empire".
Roman Zakharii, 24 January 2001
From the site of Ukrainian
Heraldry:
"The first written mention refers to the XIV century. In
1350 it was given the Magdeburg Right."
From <www.uio.no/~romanz/berezhany.htm>:
"Berezhany district has an area of 1100 sq. km and a
population of about 100,000 (including Pidhaytsi district, which
is now a separate administrative district unit). The
district is agricultural with some light industry and factories
in Berezhany. The town is situated on the both banks of the
Zolota Lypa (Golden Lime Tree) River. The population of the
town is about 20,000 persons.The town is surrounded by
hills from all its sides (such as Zvirynets and Lysonya)
According to Ukraine's last census, the number is 18,700.
In 1900, Berezhany had 11,443 inhabitants (including 4395 Jews),
and in 1939 the town had 12,700 inhabitants (including 4000
Jews). The distance between Ternopil and Berezhany is 52
km. There is a station on the Ternopil-Khodoriv railroad
line in Berezhany.
The area has been populated since the late paleolithic
era. There are some signs of that period not far from the
town. The first recorded, written evidence of Berezhany is
from around 1375. Its territory was part of the Kievan Rus,
Kingdom of Galicia, and later of the larger Rus Kingdom, Galicia,
and Volhynnia. In the middle of the 14th century Galicia
was conquered by the Polish king and was under Polish rule for a
long time. In 1530 the king of Poland gave Berezhany to his
vassel Synyavskiy, and the town adopted Magdeburg Law. From
1534 to 1554 Synyavskiy built the town fortress. Berezhany was
part of the Polish kingdom until 1772, when, after the partition
of Poland, it was incorporated into Austria, as the crown
province of Galicia (Galizien). In 1867, as Austria became
the dual monarchy Austria-Hungary, Galicia maintained its same
status as an imperial crown province. After the collapse of
Austro-Hungarian Empire, it was part of the short-lived
Western-National Ukrainian Republic, which Polish troops quickly
conquered after some resistance. It then became part of
inter-war Poland until to 1939, when Berezhany (and all of
western Ukraine) was occupied by the Soviet Union, becoming part
of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic which became independent
in 1991. "
Roman Zakharii, 24 January 2001