Hlyniany


Hlynjány is a small town in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast of Ukraine. Population:.
The Jewish population was 2,418 in 1910.
In 1340, together with whole Red Ruthenia, Hlyniany became part of the Kingdom of Poland, where it remained until 1772. The village, called Gliniany, belonged to Lwow Land of the Ruthenian Voivodeship. It received a town charter in 1397, from Voivode of Sandomierz and Starosta of Red Ruthenia, Jan z Tarnowa. In 1425, King Wladyslaw Jagiello confirmed Gliniany's charter. In summer 1537, it was one of centers of the so-called Chicken War.
In 1772 Gliniany became part of Austria's province of Galicia, in the Bezirkshauptmannshaft of Przemyslany where it remained until late 1918. In the interbellum period, it belonged to the Second Polish Republic, as part of Przemyslany County, Tarnopol Voivodeship.