Pokuttya
Pokutien (Ukrainian Покуття / Pokuttja, Romanian Pocuţia, Polish Pokucie ) is located in the southeast corner of Galicia in present-day Romanian-Ukrainian border area.
Location
This landscape is surrounded in a natural way by five rivers. The Dniester forms the northern boundary and the Cheremosh ( Черемош ) to the east marks the border with Bukovina. In the south, the gorge of the White Tisza gives the limit for Maramureş County. The Black Tisza and the Golden Bistrita make the western border of Pokutien.
History
The name Pokutien been used since the late 17th early 18th century as a field name. Pokutien derives from the Slavic word from kut, which translates as " square" or " curvy " means. With high probability, it refers to the angular - rugged cliffs and the winding hilly - mountainous landscape. The historic Pokutien today forms the eastern half of the Ukrainian County Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Capital of this district is Ivano -Frankivsk, which was called until 1962 Stanislav. For tourist purposes and limitations of historical events and cultural factors, the term Pokutien is partially used as the overall name for the district of Ivano -Frankivsk. 1349 became the region under Polish rule. In 14.-16.Jh. belonged to the region alternately also the Principality of Moldavia. 1530 conquered Hetman Tarnowski January Pokutien by the Moldovan prince Petru Rares for the Polish crown back.
Characteristic of Pokutien is also the population, which is composed of Ruthenians and Vlachs since centuries. To a certain degree, the historitsche Pokutien covered with the members appointed by the first Jagiellonian Administrative District Kolomyia.
After the First Partition of Poland, the land was under Austrian rule. In 1919 he was returned to Poland after the Second World War, he was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR.
Geography
The area Pokutien is divided by the River Prut into a northern and a southern half. The Prut River flows through the county seat Kolomyja, the historic capital of Pokutien. Furthermore, the area stretches from advancing it along the Cheremosh River.
The northern half of Pokutien is characterized by a low mountain range, whose mountainous foothills be used as meadows and fields. The southern part is a high mountain landscape of the eastern Carpathians and is also known as Huzulenland, because it is the main settlement area of the Hutsul. The highest peak of this richly wooded mountains is the Howerla ( 2,061 m). This dome-shaped mountain is sacred to the Hutsul. At the foot of this survey, many rivers have their source, as well as the Prut River and the White River Tisza, which forms with the Black Tisza Tisza together as the largest tributary of the Danube.
Georgraphisch meets this not very large terrain Podolic the plate with their steppes to the Karpartenvorland. Pokutien squeezes as sharp wedge into the mountains into whose edges are formed by the Prut and Cheremosh of.
Population
In Pokutien settle the Hutsul, a Ukrainian folk group.