Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
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Khmelnytskyi (Ukrainian: Хмельницький, Khmel'nyts'kyi; Russian: Khmelnitsky; Polish: Chmielnicki) is a city in Ukraine in the region of Podillya. It is on the Southern Buh River. The city was founded in 1493 as Proskurov, but was renamed to Khmelnytskyi in 1954 on the three-hundredth anniversary of a treaty negotiated by Bohdan Khmelnytsky. It is the center of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast in Ukraine. Alternative transliterations include Khmelnitskiy, Khmelnitsky, and Khmelnytskyy.
The town was notable for a series of pogroms carried out in the region, the last of which claimed an estimated 1,500 lives on February 15, 1919.
The town's population is 254,000 (2005).
It should not be confused with Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, a city in Ukraine's Kiev Oblast.
External links
- The Proskurov Massacre (http://www.west.net/~jazz/felshtin/issue3/proskurov.html)
- Bloody Bacchanalia: The Pogroms of Proskurov and Felshtin (http://www.west.net/~jazz/felshtin/redcross.html)
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