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Bratslav (; ; older, today pronounced
Breslov, also the name of a
Hasidic group, which originated from this town) is a
townlet in
Ukraine, located in the
Nemyriv Raion of
Vinnytsya Oblast, by the
Southern Bug river. It is a
medieval European city having dramatically lost its importance during 19th-20th centuries. As of
1988, Bratslav had a population of 6,100.
History
The first written mention of Bratslav dates back to
1362. The city was granted
Magdeburg Rights in
1564. Bratslav belonged to the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania until the
Lublin Union of
1569, when it became a
voivodeship center in the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In
1648, during the
Bohdan Khmelnytsky rebellion, Bratslav became a
Cossack regimental city, part of the Ukrainian
Hetman state, which was later assimilated by the
Duchy of Muscovy. In
1667, under the
Treaty of Andrusiv, Muscovy returned the city to Poland. The city became part of the
Russian Empire (the new name of Muscovy since 1708) after the
Second Partition of Poland in
1793, along with the rest of the
Right-bank Ukraine. Under Russia, Bratslav was an
uyezd (district) center in the
Podolia guberniya. As the city had no access to a
railroad, its importance and population gradually declined.
Bratslav is famous in
Judaism as the place where
Rabbi Nachman lived and taught. Rabbi Nachman was the founder of one of the major branches of
Hasidism,
Breslover Hasidism, and an author Jewish religious literature.
In 1926 Bratslav had a population of 7,842 (Source=Columbia-Lippincott Gazetteer).
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