Halych
Halych is a historic city on the Dniester River in western Ukraine. The city gave its name to the Principality of Halych, the historic province of Galicia, and the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, of which it was the capital until the early 14th century, when the seat of the local rulers moved to Lviv.
Photo: Roman Zacharij, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 6,310 residents
- Description: city in the Ivano-Frankisk Oblast of Ukraine
- Also known as: “Galitj”, “Galõtš”, “Halič”, “Halich”, “Halitch”, “Галич (давній)”, “Галич (Украинæ)”, “Галич Русский”, “Галич Южный”, “Галич-Русский”, “Галич-Южный”, “Галіч (Івана-Франкоўская вобласць)”, “Галіч, Івана-Франкоўская вобласць”, “Галіч, Украіна”, “Халич”, “ハーリチ”, “ハリチ”, and “ハルィチ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Halych Castle and Halych National Nature Park.
Halych Castle
Castle
Photo: Roman Zacharij, Public domain.Halych National Nature Park
Museum
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zalukva and Shevchenkove.
Tustan
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Halych
- Categories: city in Ukraine and locality
- Location: Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.12332° or 49° 7′ 24″ north
Longitude
24.72995° or 24° 43′ 48″ east
Population
6,310
Elevation
213 metres (699 feet)
Open location code
8GX64PFH+8X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Halych” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هاليتش”
- Armenian: “Գալիչ”
- Armenian: “Հալիչ”
- Azerbaijani: “Qaliç (İvano-Frankovsk vilayəti)”
- Azerbaijani: “Qaliç”
- Basque: “Halytx”
- Belarusian: “Галіч”
- Bulgarian: “Галич”
- Catalan: “Hàlitx”
- Chechen: “Галич”
- Chinese: “加利奇”
- Chinese: “哈利奇”
- Crimean Tatar: “Galıç”
- Croatian: “Galič”
- Czech: “Halyč”
- Danish: “Halytj”
- Dutch: “Halytsj”
- Eastern Mari: “Галич (ола, Украина)”
- Eastern Mari: “Галич”
- Esperanto: “Haliĉ”
- Estonian: “Halõtš”
- Finnish: “Halytš”
- Finnish: “Hаlytš”
- French: “Halytch”
- Galician: “Hálych”
- Georgian: “გალიჩი”
- Georgian: “ჰალიჩი”
- German: “Halitsch”
- German: “Halytsch”
- Greek: “Χάλιτς”
- Hebrew: “האליץ‘”
- Hebrew: “האליץ’”
- Hebrew: “האליץ”
- Hungarian: “Halics”
- Italian: “Halyč”
- Japanese: “ハールィチ”
- Kannada: “ಹ್ಯಾಲಿಚ್”
- Korean: “할리치”
- Latin: “Galicia”
- Latin: “Halicia”
- Latvian: “Haliča”
- Lithuanian: “Haličas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Halytsj”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Halytsj”
- Norwegian: “Halytsj”
- Ossetian: “Галич”
- Persian: “هالیچ”
- Polish: “Halicz”
- Portuguese: “Aliche”
- Portuguese: “Halych”
- Romanian: “Halîci, Halîci”
- Romanian: “Halici”
- Romanian: “Halîci”
- Russian: “Галич”
- Scots: “Halych”
- Serbian: “Galič”
- Serbian: “Галич”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Galič”
- Slovenian: “Galič”
- Spanish: “Halych”
- Spanish: “Hálych”
- Swedish: “Halytj”
- Tatar: “Һалыч”
- Telugu: “హాలీచ్”
- Thai: “ฮาลึช”
- Ukrainian: “Halych”
- Ukrainian: “Галич”
- Upper Sorbian: “Halyč”
- Urdu: “ہالیچ”
- Vietnamese: “Halych”
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