Sokyriany

Sokyrjany (Ukrainian Сокиряни; Russian Сокиряны / Sokirjany, Romanian Secureni ) is a town in the Ukrainian Chernivtsi Oblast. It is located near the Dniester near the border with Moldova, about 111 kilometers east of Czernowitz in the area of northern Bessarabia.

The city was first mentioned in writing in 1666 and then to 1711 belonged to the Principality of Moldavia, then it was up to the cession of Bessarabia to Russia in 1812 a part of the Ottoman Empire. 1893 got the place a rail connection ( railway Chernivtsi - Ocniţa ), after the end of World War II, he came to Romania (in the circle Hotin ), but was in the wake of annexation of Bessarabia on August 2, 1940, a part of the Soviet Union ( between 1941-1945 turn to Romania) and since 1991 a part of the Ukraine.

Since 1966 the city has Sokyrjany status, before the Second World War there was a large Jewish population. South of the city there is the Ukrainian penal colony No. 67

According to legend, the name of Ukrainian name " Sokyra " / Сокира derives for ax, this is the fugitive from the shore area of the Dniester from the Turks population in the dense forest of the hinterland at that time like the trees and have built a new place.

Place in the Chernivtsi Oblast
Bessarabia

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