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39-586: Today Oster is a river port with a cotton-textile factory and a food industry. Some parts of the old fortress in Oster have been preserved, as have the remains of the Saint Michael's Church, constructed in 1098 and the only preserved church of the medieval principality of Pereiaslav . Oster was founded in 1098 by Vladimir II Monomakh as Gorodets, a fortress belonging to the Pereiaslav principality, which

78-561: A Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi branch of the Kyiv State Pedagogical Institute, HSUP continued the ancient educational traditions of Pereiaslav. The roots of the University go back to the first half of the 18th century, namely, to 2.10.1738, when a collegium was founded in Pereiaslav. In 1808, after the reform of religious education institutions, Pereiaslav Collegium was reorganized into a seminary, which continued

117-556: A Slavic settlement until its fortification at the beginning of the ninth century. The proximity to the then Bulgarian capital of Pliska led to the fast development and expansion of Preslav during the reign of the Khans Krum and Omurtag . By the time of the coronation of Khan Boris I in 852, Preslav had turned into an important strategic military centre and was the seat of the Ichirgu-boil . A number of churches were built in

156-484: A dramatic downturn at the end of the 960s, when it was occupied by Kievan Prince Sviatoslav . The ensuing war between Rus' and Byzantines left the city burnt and ravaged by the army of Byzantine Emperor John I Tzimisces . The conquerors took away the treasury, the Bulgarian Tsar 's regalia and a large part of the library of Simeon. Although the city did not lose its importance in the next three hundred years,

195-505: Is a city and the seat of government of the Veliki Preslav Municipality (Great Preslav Municipality, new Bulgarian: obshtina ), which in turn is part of Shumen Province , Bulgaria . Veliki Preslav is situated at an altitude of 132 m (92 m above sea level). A former village, it assumed the name of the medieval capital in 1878 and became a town in 1883. As of December 2009, it had a population of 8,951. Preslav

234-516: Is a historical city in Boryspil Raion , Kyiv Oblast , central Ukraine . It is located near the confluence of the Alta and Trubizh rivers some 95 km (59.03 mi) southeast of the capital Kyiv . It was one of the key regional centers of power during the medieval period and served as the capital of a principality . Pereiaslav hosts the administration of Pereiaslav urban hromada, one of

273-540: Is a museum dedicated to him. Additional Comments: ...After the 1654 Pereiaslav Council, the remnants of the Pereiaslav Jewish community became patronized by Russia. The left-bank Jews were allowed to stay in their homes, but the townspeople of Pereiaslav presented to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich the law of 1620 limiting the rights of Jews, which was confirmed by the Tsar. Information about Pereiaslav Jews disappears from

312-504: Is operating there. On 30 June – 2 July 1881 there was a pogrom against the Jews in Pereiaslav. Among the victims were Jews who had fled here after the Kyiv pogrom. From Pereiaslav, the unrest spread to the surrounding areas. In June 1919, Ataman Zeleniy arranged a pogrom in Pereiaslav and 20 people were killed. By 1921, a Jewish 'self-defense' organisation had been founded in Pereiaslav. In 1926,

351-789: The Union of Lublin which was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth . In 1648, it became part of an uyezd (county) of the Pereiaslav regiment. From 1654, Oster was under control of Russia . In 1622, King Jan II Casimir granted Oster the Magdeburg rights and a coat of arms. After harsh battles of the Khmelnytsky Uprising , Polish rule was again established in Oster, but in February 1664, with support from

390-523: The hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is approximately 26,273 (2022 estimate). Possessing more than 20 museums, Pereiaslav is often described as a "living museum", and was granted the status of History and Ethnography Reserve  [ uk ] . The current name is implemented by the Verkhovna Rada on 30 September 2019 to reinstate its historical name. The name of Pereiaslav in other languages are: In 1152, Yuri Dolgorukiy founded

429-894: The steppes of what is now southern Ukraine. The city was the capital of the Principality of Pereyaslavl from the mid-11th century until its demolition by the Tatars in 1239, during the Mongol invasions . During the 14th century, Pereiaslav was annexed by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . Since 1471 it was part of the Kiev Voivodeship , which in 1569 became part of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland . In 1585, Polish King Stephen Báthory granted Perejasław Magdeburg city rights . It

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468-764: The III level of accreditation by the decision of the State Accreditation Commission in 2000. In 2002 by a decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University was established on the basis of the Institute. In 2004 and 2010, University was accredited at the IV level, in 2005 it was renamed to SHEI “Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University”, and on 14 July 2021, due to

507-525: The Jewish community was flourishing despite the persecution and there were 3,590 Jews in Pereiaslav. At this time, there were 8 houses of study ( batei midrash ), 3 different Jewish schools, and 26 kosher butchers. During autumn 1941, on the outskirts of the city (the present territory of the Altitsky cemetery), 800 Jewish residents of Pereiaslav were shot. According to elderly residents, the exact date of

546-473: The King ordered his commissioners to consider the other rights of Jews. Three years later, an agreement was signed allowing the Jews to enjoy all of the rights and liberties of urban citizens. This agreement was confirmed by King Sigismund. Pereiaslav Jews were among the first to be killed during the first Khmelnytskyi uprising . Chronicler Nathan Hannover writes: "And a lot of holy communities, based not far from

585-734: The Soviet government, keen to glorify the Treaty of Pereiaslav as the ground for Ukraine's unification with Russia, renamed Pereiaslav to Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi in October 1943 to stress Bohdan Khmelnytskyi's role of that event. Later, the otherwise obscure town was established, as a dedicated museum and tourism center. By the request of the Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi City Council, the Ukrainian parliament reinstated

624-479: The centre of the uprising, Tarnovgrad , whereas his brother and co-ruler Theodore Peter resided in Preslav as a symbol of the renewed statehood of Bulgaria. The strategic advantages of Tarnovgrad were, however, decisive in the long run and the significance of Preslav waned in the course of the 13th century. The Tatar raids during the 1270s drove away the last citizens of Preslav, along with the protothroned bishop of

663-631: The city after the conversion of the Bulgarians to Christianity in 864. The pagan revolt of the Pliska nobility led by Prince Vladimir in 892 was decisive for the future destiny of the city. In 893 Vladimir was dethroned and during the Council of Preslav Boris I appointed Simeon the Great as his successor and decided to move the capital of the state from the still somewhat pagan Pliska to Preslav. In

702-414: The city of Pereslavl-Zalessky in the north-east of Kievan Rus . To distinguish the two cities, Pereiaslav was sometimes called Pereiaslav-Ruskyi in the 12th and 13th centuries. It is also known as Pereyaslavl-Yuzhnyy ( Russian : Переяславль-Южный , lit.   'Pereyaslavl-Southern'). Pereiaslav played a significant role in the history of Ukraine. It was mentioned for the first time in

741-409: The city to its historic name Pereiaslav in October 2019. Until 18 July 2020, Pereiaslav was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and served as the administrative center of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Raion , even though it did not belong to the raion. In July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast to seven, the city of Pereiaslav

780-487: The city. Some of the surviving refugees built up a village of the same name only two kilometres north from the fortress where the contemporary town of Veliki Preslav is now situated. Preslav Crag on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands , Antarctica is named after Preslav. The National Historical and Archaeological Reserve and Museum are located in the town. In 1906 Yordan Gospodinov with

819-458: The district, among them 9,857 Jews, including in Pereiaslav - 14,614 residents, of whom 5,754 were Jews. In 1910, three Jewish schools operated in Pereiaslav: first grade primary boys school, a private boys school, and a Talmud-Torah. At the end of the 19th century, the synagogue was built, it survived the war and has preserved until now – the factory of woven products named after B. Khmelnitsky

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858-646: The educational traditions of the region, including teacher training. By the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 949 of 24 November 1993, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi State Pedagogical Institute was established on the basis of the Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi branch of the Drahomanov Ukrainian State Pedagogical University, named after H. S. Skovoroda in 1994 and recognized as accredited at

897-778: The establishment of the Cossack Hetmanate in left-bank Ukraine subject to the Tsardom of Russia , and later to the Russo-Polish War (1654-1667) . The town was known as Pereiaslav at that time, and later as Pereiaslav-Poltavskyi . According to the Truce of Andrusovo in 1667, Pereiaslav became part of Russia. During World War II (part of which is known as the Great Patriotic War in USSR and Russia),

936-486: The evening promised». Famous Yiddish author Sholom Aleichem was born in Pereiaslav in 1859. He spent his childhood in the town of Voronkiv, but when the family became impoverished he returned to Pereiaslav, where he studied at the Russian gymnasium until 1876. In 1879 he again returned to Pereiaslav for several years. The town is described in detail in his autobiographical prose. In the town's 'ethnographic reserve', there

975-435: The following 80 years the city developed rapidly, turning into a centre not only of Bulgarian politics and diplomacy, but also of Slavic culture, literature and fine arts. A chronicler mentioned that it took Simeon 28 years to establish and build up his new capital. Archeological excavations have, however, proved that the city continued to develop also during the 930s and 940s and reached the peak in its growth and magnificence in

1014-614: The local population, the Poles were driven back by Cossacks and the Russians. In 1803, the city became an uyezd center of Chernigov Governorate . Until 18 July 2020, Oster belonged to Kozelets Raion . The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernihiv Oblast to five. The area of Kozelets Raion was merged into Chernihiv Raion. Pereiaslav Pereiaslav

1053-675: The middle of the rule of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria . In view of the impressive town planning, the vital economy and the grandeur of buildings like the Round Church and the Royal Palace, Preslav was a true rival of the largest and most important city centres in the western hemisphere. Culturally, it was the centre of the Preslav Literary School which was founded in Pliska in 886 and was moved to Preslav along with

1092-630: The neighbouring outskirts and the big monasteries became desolate, the economy lost its vitality and significance. It is mentioned by Anna Komnene in the Alexiad under the hellenised name Megale Peristhlaba . Preslav regained some of its importance in Bulgarian politics during the first years of the joint rule of the founders of the Second Bulgarian Empire , Peter IV of Bulgaria and Ivan Asen I . Apparently, Ivan Asen ruled from

1131-450: The place of battle and unable to flee, like the holy communities of Pereiaslav, Baryshivka, Pyryatin, Borispil, Lubny, Lokhvitsa and the surrounding communities, died as martyrs of various cruel and heinous kinds of slaughter..." («Yeven metsula», p. 94). Another chronicler, Rabbi Meir of Schebrzheschina, provides a detailed story: «The sacred community of Pereiaslav had drunk from the cup of bitterness several times; perplexed Jews fled to

1170-531: The previous renaming of the city and in order to simplify the name of the institution in the established European tradition of naming higher education institutions, it received a new official name - Hryhorii Skovoroda University in Pereiaslav. The most significant landmarks of Pereiaslav are: Pereiaslav is twinned with: Preslav The modern Veliki Preslav or Great Preslav ( Bulgarian : Велики Преслав , pronounced [vɛˈliki prɛˈsɫaf] ), former Preslav (Bulgarian: Преслав ; until 1993),

1209-649: The rest of the court in 893. The greatest Bulgarian writers from the Old Bulgarian period worked in Preslav, among them John Exarch , Constantine of Preslav , Chernorizets Hrabar . It was probably around the Preslav Literary School that the Cyrillic script developed in the tenth century. The city also had large ceramic workshops which produced art ceramics, glazed tiles, as well as ceramic icons and iconostases . The city's fortune underwent

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1248-413: The sacred community of Borisovka (NB. probably Baryshivka). But the rebels also came there and slaughtered many Jews including infants. The local non-Jews pitied those who survived and brought them back to Pereiaslav, where they remained locked up like prisoners in their homes, because they were afraid to be seen by the rebels. At night they did not know what the morning would bring, and in the morning - what

1287-417: The same year 1654. A new community developed during the late 18th century. According to the tax books of 1801, there were 5 Christian merchants, no Jewish merchants; 844 Christian townspeople and 66 Jewish townspeople. According to the audit of 1847 there was only one "Pereiaslavskoe' Jewish community in the district, consisting of 1,519 people. According to the census of 1897, there were 185,000 inhabitants in

1326-460: The shooting was 4–5 November, however, the memorial plate indicates a different date – 6–8 October. On 19 May 1943, after a raid, 7 more Jewish women and 1 man were shot, and buried in the Altitsky cemetery. The current Jewish population of Pereiaslav numbers fewer than 100. The community office is located in the building of the former synagogue. There is a major river port in the city, working as part of Kyiv River Port . Established in 1986 as

1365-598: The text of a 911 treaty with the Byzantine Empire , where it was mentioned as Pereyaslav-Ruskyi to distinguish it from Preslav in Bulgaria and later with newly established cities in Zalesye including Pereslavl-Zalessky and Pereyaslavl-Ryazansky . Vladimir I (Volodymyr I), the grand prince of Kiev , built a large fortress in 992 to protect the southern limits of Kievan Rus' from raids of nomads from

1404-630: Was a royal city of Poland. During the second half of the 16th century Pereiaslav became a regimental city of the Zaphorozhian Host . Here in 1654 Bohdan Khmelnytskyi had the controversial "Pereiaslav Convent", where the Zaphorozhian Cossacks had voted for a military alliance with the Tsardom of Russia and accepted the Pereiaslav Agreement , bringing their lands under Russian rule. The treaty resulted in

1443-495: Was later inherited by his son Yuri Dolgorukiy . In 1240, it was destroyed by the Mongol invasion , after which it remained in ruins for a century. After the destruction of the fort, a village was built in its place, named Stary Oster or Starogorodkaya. In the beginning of the 14th century, a newer settlement arose closer to the Desna, named Oster. From 1356 Oster was under control of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , and from 1569 under

1482-425: Was merged into Boryspil Raion. Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census : The first mention of the Jewish community of Pereiaslav dates to 1620, when the townspeople complained to King Sigismund of the growing number and influence of Jews in Pereiaslav. Denying Jews the right to keep breweries, malt-houses and distilleries, having already prohibited them to engage in farming,

1521-499: Was the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire from 893 to 972 and was one of the most important cities in medieval Southeastern Europe. The ruins of the city are situated in modern northeastern Bulgaria , some 20 kilometres southwest of the regional capital of Shumen , and are currently a national archaeological reserve. The name of Preslav is of Slavic origin; apparently it was initially founded and functioned as

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