Place:Chortkiv, Chortkiv, Ternopil, Ukraine

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NameChortkiv
Alt namesChortkovsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Čortkovsource: Rand McNally Atlas (1989) I-41
TypeTown
Coordinates49.017°N 25.7°E
Located inChortkiv, Ternopil, Ukraine
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Chortkiv (; ; Chortkov) is a city in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Chortkiv Raion (district), housing the district's local administration buildings. Chortkiv hosts the administration of Chortkiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population:

Chortkiv is located in the northern part of the historic region of Galician Podolia on the banks of the Seret River.[1]

In the past Chortkiv was the home of many Hasidic Jews; it was a notable shtetl and had a significant number of Jews residing there prior to the Holocaust. Today, Chortkiv is a regional commercial and small-scale manufacturing center.[2] Among its architectural monuments is a fortress built in the 16th and 17th centuries as well as historic wooden churches of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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