The village is at the confluence of the Zbruch and Dniester rivers, on the border of Ternopil, Khmelnytsky and Chernivtsi regions. In the XVII century. the border between Poland and Turkey ran along the Zbruch and Dniester. In 1692, King Jan III Sobieski chose this narrow rocky promontory as a place for the construction of the powerful fortress of the Holy Trinity Trenches for the blockade of Kamyanets-Podolsky, occupied by the Turks at that time, for which provisions were supplied from Khotin. The blockade played a decisive role in the return of Podillia to Poland. In 1699, thousands of Poles, who had been waiting for the surrender of Kamyanets-Podolsky by the Turks for several months, turned Trenches into a whole city under the open sky. Since 1793, the borders of Russia, Austria-Hung ...
Administrative status | village |
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Founded / first mentioned | 1692 |
Region | Ternopil |