Rozhniativ

Roschnjatiw (Ukrainian Рожнятів; Russian Рожнятов / Roschnjatow, Polish Rożniatów ) is situated on the River Duba, a tributary of the Limnyzja a lying in western Ukraine urban-type settlement west of the Oblasthauptstadt Ivano -Frankivsk. The coat of arms goes back to the former owner of the place, the Skarbek family.

The village was founded in the 12th century and was until 1772 in the Polish -Lithuanian aristocratic republic in the province of Ruthenia. Under the Polish name Rożniatów he belonged until 1918 to the Austrian Galicia and was from 1854 to 1867 the seat of a district team. 1875 a station on the railway line today Stry - Ivano-Frankivsk was opened near the place.

After the end of World War I. He came to Poland and was occupied during the Second World War only by the Soviet Union and from 1941 to 1944 by Germany and joined the district of Galicia.

In 1945 the city came again to the Soviet Union, where they became part of the Ukrainian SSR, and since 1991 a part of today's Ukraine.