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Sniatyn (Ukrainian: Снятин, Polish: Śniatyń, Armenian: Սնիատին) is a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Sniatynsky Raion (district), and is located at around 48°27′0″N 25°34′0″E / 48.45°N 25.566667°E / 48.45; 25.566667Coordinates: 48°27′0″N 25°34′0″E / 48.45°N 25.566667°E / 48.45; 25.566667.

The current estimated population is around 10,500 (as of 2001).

The first mention of the town is in 1158. Ksniatyn was named after Kostiantyn Stroslavich, a famous commander at the court of Halicz King Yaroslav Osmomysl. The town was given the Magdeburg Rights in 1448. In the interbellum period, it was a rail border crossing between Poland and Romania.

Nearly all of Sniatyn's Jewish population was murdered during the Holocaust. Many were shot and buried in the local forest. Some died from disease and starvation in the ghetto. Approximately 1500 people were sent, via railway, to the Belzec death camp in Poland.

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SNYATYN, (SNIATYN): A Jewish shtetl from the mid 1500s through the mid 1940s

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