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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