Tlumach


Tlumach is a small city located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Tlumach Raion. Population:. In 2001, population was around 8,800.

History

From the first partition of Poland in 1772 until 1918, the town was part of the Austrian monarchy, head of the district with the same name, one of the 78 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Austrian Galicia province in 1900.
The fate of this province was then disputed between Poland and Russia, until the Peace of Riga in 1921, attributing Galicia to the Second Polish Republic.
A post-office was opened in 1858.
Tłumacz was the seat of a Powiat in the Second Polish Republic. In 1921, its population was around 5,000, consisting mostly of Poles and 2,012 Jews. The Ukrainians dominated in the villages around the town.
During World War II, the Germans, with the assistance of both Poles and Ukrainians, murdered the Jews,. Only about 30 Jews survived. Poles who survived the war were forced by the Soviets to leave Tlumacz after 1945. Most of them settled in Lower Silesia; they organized themselves into the Association of Inhabitants of Tlumacz, which is located in Wrocław.

Name

In Ukrainian the word means interpreter of the one who explains the meaning of words. Possibly it was named by the White Croats that once inhibited the area.
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People from Tlumach