Pidkamin
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Pidkamin Підкамінь |
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 Pidkamin and vicinity |
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 Pidkamin
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| Coordinates: 49°56′44″N 25°19′16″E / 49.945586°N 25.321155°ECoordinates: 49°56′44″N 25°19′16″E / 49.945586°N 25.321155°E | ||
| Country | Ukraine | |
| Oblast | Lviv Oblast | |
| Raion | Brody Raion | |
| First mentioned | 1441 | |
| Named for | a local butte | |
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| • Total | 3.57 km2 (1.38 sq mi) | |
| Population (2013) | ||
| • Total | 2,103 | |
| Area code(s) | +380 3266 | |
Pidkamin (Ukrainian: Підкамінь, Polish: Podkamień) is an urban-type settlement in Brody Raion (district), Lviv oblast in Ukraine. It is located near the administrative border of three oblasts, Lviv, Rivne, and Ternopil. Population: 2,103 (2013 est.).
The village takes its name (translatable into English as "below the rock") from an inselberg called the "Devil's Rock", which is located on an adjacent hill. Pidkamin became known for a Dominican monastery. It was established by twelve monks from a monastery established by Saint Hyacinth in Kyiv who were forced to flee from the city when it was ravaged by Mongols (in 1240). Prior Urban and 12 monks were martyred by Tatars in 1245. In the second half of the 15th century wasteland around the place where the monastery had been, was in possession of nobleman Petrus Cebrovscii who founded the town. With his assistance on the mountain was built a castle, rebuilt Roman Catholic church. Knowing the stories about being here before the Dominican monastery, he went to Lviv archbishop asking that he sent to Pidkamin monks. Monastery was reestablished in 1464 by the Latin Archbishop of Lviv Gregory of Sanok, who himself came to the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary monks came to the Roman church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, St Cross, Peter and Paul and all the saints.
In 1519 after the devastation Pidkamin passed in possession nobleman Marcin Kamenecki.
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