Terebovlia

Terebovlia is a small city in Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast of western Ukraine. It is an ancient settlement that traces its roots to the settlement of Terebovl which existed in Kievan Rus'. The name may also be variously transliterated as Terebovlya, Terebovla, or Terebovlja. Terebovlia hosts the administration of Terebovlia urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.The population as of the 2001 census was 13,661; current population is estimates as 13,279 In 1913 the city counted 10,000 residents, of whom 4,000 were Poles, 3,200 were Rusyns and 2,800 were Jews. In 1929 there were 7,015 people, mostly Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish. Until September 17, 1939, the day of the Soviet invasion of Poland, Trembowla was a county seat within the Tarnopol Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic. Prior to the Holocaust, the city was home to 1,486 Jews, and most of them were shot by Germans in the nearby village of Plebanivka on April 7, 1943.