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Khmelnytskyy in Ukraine UKRAINE ukraine. khmelnytskyy Informations and links Khmelnytskyy![]() ![]() Map Khmelnytskyy Photos Khmelnytskyy Population on 05-Dec-01 : 253994 ------------------------------- Khmelnytskyi (Ukrainian:Khmel'nyts'kyi; Russian: Khmelnitsky; Polish: Chmielnicki) is a city in Ukraine in the region of Podolia. It is on the Southern Buh River. The city was founded in 1493 as Proskuriv (Russian Proskurov), but was renamed to Khmelnytskyi in 1954 on the three-hundredth anniversary of a treaty negotiated by Bohdan Khmelnytsky. It is the center of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast in Ukraine. Alternative transliterations include Khmelnitskiy, Khmelnitsky, and Khmelnytskyy. The town was notable for a series of pogroms carried out in the region, the last of which claimed an estimated 1,500 lives on February 15, 1919. The town's population is 254,000 (2005). (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.) Ukraine was the center of the first Slavic state, Kievan Rus, which during the 10th and 11th centuries was the largest and most powerful state in Europe. Weakened by internecine quarrels and Mongol invasions, Kievan Rus was incorporated into the Grand Duc.
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