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'''Pomoriany''' (Ukrainian: Поморяни) is an [[urban-type settlement]] in [[Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast]], [[Ukraine]]. It hosts the administration of [[Pomoriany settlement hromada]], one of the [[hromada]]s of Ukraine.<ref name="admreform_2020_pomoriany">{{cite web |title=Поморянская громада |url=https://gromada.info/ru/obschina/pomoryanska/ |publisher=Портал об'єднаних громад України |language=ru}}</ref> Population is estimated as {{Ua-pop-est2022|1,272}}

 

The first mentions of Pomoriany reach 14th century when the town was transferred to the ownership of [[ruthenia]]n nobles Svynka. The highest development of the town took place in the 16th -17th centuries. That time Pomoriany was the center of the [[Calvinism|Calvinist]] movement, subsequently blasted by the Catholic Church.<ref>Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich. — Warszawa : Filip Sulimierski i Władysław Walewski, 1887. — T. VIII : Perepiatycha — Pożajście.. — S. 748</ref> The town was a prominent center of Ukrainian culture in the early twentieth century. During the Soviet industrialization town devoid of railways and enterprises gradually degraded.

 

Until the [[holocaust]], Pomoriany had a large Jewish community. In the beginning of the 20th century it had around 1,910 Jews, more than one third of the total population. Many of the Jews left in the end of the 19th century and after [[World War I]].

 

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