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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Roman Zacharij, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Halych Castle and Halych National Nature Park.
Halych Castle
Castle
Photo: Roman Zacharij, Public domain.
Halych Castle, is a first castle here was built in the 14th century by the Polish king Casimir III the Great to protect the borders of the Kingdom of Poland after the incorporation of Red Ruthenia into it.
Halych National Nature Park
Museum
Photo: Олександр Кон, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Halych National Nature Park highlights forest, steppe, meadow and wetlands of the borderlands between the Ukrainian Carpathians and the southwestern part of the East European Plain. Halych National Nature Park is situated 3 km south of Halych.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shevchenkove and Tustan.
Shevchenkove
Village
Photo: Klymenkoy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shevchenkove is a village, which is situated 3 km west of Halych.
Tustan
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Tustan is a village, which is situated 3 km east of Halych.
Krylos
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Krylos is a village of Ivano-Frankivsk Raion in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is located 5 kilometres south of modern Halych and is part of the Ancient Halych National Reserve. Krylos is situated 5 km southwest of Halych.
Halych
- Type: Town with 6,310 residents
- Description: city in the Ivano-Frankisk Oblast of Ukraine
- 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″ northLongitude
24.72995° or 24° 43′ 48″ eastPopulation
6,310Elevation
213 metres (699 feet)Open location code
8GX64PFH+8XOpenStreetMap ID
node 312267035OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
709034Wikidata ID
Q146450
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Satellite Map
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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 (Івана-Франкоўская вобласць)”
- Belarusian: “Галіч, Івана-Франкоўская вобласць”
- Belarusian: “Галіч, Украіна”
- Belarusian: “Галіч”
- Bulgarian: “Галич”
- Bulgarian: “Халич”
- Catalan: “Hàlitx”
- Chechen: “Галич”
- Chinese: “加利奇”
- Chinese: “哈利奇”
- Crimean Tatar: “Galıç”
- Croatian: “Galič”
- Czech: “Galič”
- Czech: “Halič”
- Czech: “Halicia”
- Czech: “Halicz”
- Czech: “Halitsch”
- Czech: “Halyč”
- Czech: “Halytsch”
- Danish: “Halytj”
- Dutch: “Halych”
- Dutch: “Halytsj”
- Eastern Mari: “Галич (ола, Украина)”
- Eastern Mari: “Галич”
- Esperanto: “Haliĉ”
- Estonian: “Galõtš”
- Estonian: “Halõtš”
- Finnish: “Halytš”
- Finnish: “Hаlytš”
- French: “Halich”
- French: “Halicz”
- French: “Halitch”
- French: “Halych”
- French: “Halytch”
- Galician: “Hálych”
- Georgian: “გალიჩი”
- Georgian: “ჰალიჩი”
- German: “Halicz”
- German: “Halitsch”
- German: “Halytsch”
- Greek: “Χάλιτς”
- Hebrew: “האליץ‘”
- Hebrew: “האליץ’”
- Hebrew: “האליץ”
- Hungarian: “Halics”
- Italian: “Halicz”
- Italian: “Halyč”
- Italian: “Halych”
- Japanese: “ハーリチ”
- Japanese: “ハールィチ”
- Japanese: “ハリチ”
- Japanese: “ハルィチ”
- Korean: “할리치”
- Latin: “Galicia”
- Latvian: “Haliča”
- Lithuanian: “Haličas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Halytsj”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Halicz”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Halytsch”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Halytsj”
- Norwegian: “Halytsj”
- Ossetian: “Галич (Украинæ)”
- Ossetian: “Галич”
- Persian: “هالیچ”
- Polish: “Halicz”
- Portuguese: “Aliche”
- Portuguese: “Halicz”
- Portuguese: “Halych”
- Romanian: “Halîci, Halîci”
- Romanian: “Halici”
- Romanian: “Halîci”
- Romanian: “Halych”
- Russian: “Галич Русский”
- Russian: “Галич Южный”
- Russian: “Галич-Русский”
- Russian: “Галич-Южный”
- Russian: “Галич”
- Scots: “Halych”
- Serbian: “Galič”
- Serbian: “Галич”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Galič”
- Slovenian: “Galič”
- Spanish: “Halych”
- Spanish: “Hálych”
- Swedish: “Galitj”
- Swedish: “Halytj”
- Tatar: “Һалыч”
- Thai: “ฮาลึช”
- Ukrainian: “Halych”
- Ukrainian: “Галич (давній)”
- Ukrainian: “Галич”
- Upper Sorbian: “Galič”
- Upper Sorbian: “Halič”
- Upper Sorbian: “Halicz”
- Upper Sorbian: “Halyč”
- Vietnamese: “Halych”
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