Vyshnivets
Вишнівець | |
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Coordinates: 49°54′00″N 25°44′00″E / 49.90000°N 25.73333°E | |
Country | Ukraine |
Oblast | Ternopil Oblast |
Raion | Kremenets Raion |
Hromada | Vyshnivets settlement hromada |
First mentioned | 1395 |
Town status | 1960 |
Area | |
• Total | 6 km2 (2 sq mi) |
Population (2022) | |
• Total | 3,179 |
• Density | 530/km2 (1,400/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Postal code | 47313 |
Area code | +380 |
Website | gska2 |
Vyshnivets (Ukrainian: Вишнівець; Polish: Wiśniowiec) is a rural settlement in Kremenets Raion, Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Vyshnivets settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Population: 3,179 (2022 estimate).[2]
Vyshnivets is better known as a family estate of the Polish royal house of Wiśniowiecki (originally Ruthenian princes), which is known for switching from Eastern Orthodoxy to Catholicism (as part of Polonization) as well as the Cossack Hetman Dmytro "Baida" Vyshnevetsky, who established the first Zaporizhian Sich on the island of Small (Mala) Khortytsia on the Dnipro River in 1552 in defense of the lands.