Prykarpattia
region of Western Ukraine
Prykarpattia (Ukrainian: Прикарпаття, Ukrainian pronunciation: [prekɐrˈpɑtʲːɐ]), also known as Subcarpathia (Підкарпаття, Pidkarpattia) is a Ukrainian term for Ciscarpathia, a physical geographical region for the northeastern Carpathian foothills.
Located at the outer foot of the Eastern Carpathian Mountains (Outer Subcarpathia), consisting of today's Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (predominantly) and Lviv Oblast (partially), it forms part of the larger historic region of Galicia (Haliczyna), which before the 14th century was a part of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia. Along with the Lviv, Chernivtsi and Zakarpattia regions, Prykarpattia is a component of the Carpathian Euroregion.
History
Initially a part of Kievan Rus' and one of its successor states, the Principality of Halych, the area ultimately became part of the Kingdom of Poland.
Following the Partitions of Poland of 1772, Prykarpattia fell under the Habsburg monarchy.
In the wake of the World War I and the fall of Austria-Hungary, it became disputed between Poland and a short-lived West Ukrainian People's Republic. After the Polish-Soviet War was concluded, it remained in Poland.
After the 1939 invasion and partition of Poland between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, the area was attached to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (falling to Nazi control after the start of Operation Barbarossa and until 1944). It remains a part of modern Ukraine, incorporated into the western Ukrainian oblast of Ivano-Frankivsk, roughly corresponding to the southern half of the oblast.
Geography
The region of Pokuttya today is used interchangeably with Prykarpattia.
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