Drohobych

Drohobych (; Polish: Drohobycz, German: Drohobytsch; ; Yiddish: ???????? drobitsh) is a city in the Ukrainian Lviv Oblast. Population 77,200 (2004).

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Industries based in the city include oil-refineries, chemicals, machinery, metallurgy, and food processing.

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Drohobych is first mentioned in 1387, and thereafter was part of Poland. The city received Magdeburg rights in 1422. The 1772 partition of Poland gave Drohobycz to Austria. Following World War I, the city was returned to Poland, but with World War II, the city became part of the Soviet Ukraine of the USSR.

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