Trakhtemyriv

Depiction of Trakhtemyriv in the 16th century

Trakhtemyriv (Ukrainian: Трахтемирів, Polish: Trechtymirów) is a very small village in Cherkasy Raion, Cherkasy Oblast. It belongs to Bobrytsia rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] In the past it was a city and quartered the Registered Cossacks of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth since 1578. Part of the former city is submerged by the Kaniv Reservoir. The city also included a legendary settlement of Zarub that is mentioned in the Hypatian Chronicles of 1096 and 1168.

As of 2007 the village housed total of only 9 people. From around 2013 the village has no permanent population, and is inhabited mainly during the summer period. The village has no public electricity, water supply or canalisation.

Trakhtemyriv is located to the north from Kaniv.

  1. ^ "Бобрицька територіальна громада" (in Ukrainian). decentralization.gov.ua.

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