Horodło, Poland, Poland

Horodło

Poland, Poland

Horodło is a historic village in eastern Poland's Lublin Voivodeship, serving as the seat of Gmina Horodło in Hrubieszów County on the Ukrainian border along the Bug River, marking Poland's easternmost commune. First mentioned in 1287 as a princely settlement in Prince Volodymyr of Halych's will and incorporated into Poland by Casimir the Great in 1366, it gained city rights around 1413 as the site of the pivotal Union of Horodło, where King Władysław II Jagiełło and Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas formalized Polish-Lithuanian alliance by adopting 47 Lithuanian noble families into Polish heraldry amid Orthodox-Catholic tensions. Featuring a 10th-13th century Slavic stronghold later rebuilt as a wooden castle under Lithuanian Prince Lubart in the 14th century—destroyed by Swedes in 1706—it thrived as a trade hub on the Amber Road with fairs, crafts, and a Dominican church (now St. Jacek and Our Lady of the Rosary, rebuilt 1739-1758), suffering Tatar raids, Cossack uprisings, and partitions before regaining Polish sovereignty post-1918.

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