Bila Tserkva

Bila Tserkva is a metropolis in critical Ukraine, the largest town in Kiev Oblast. Bila Tserkva is positioned at the Ros River about 80 km south of Kiev. The location is 67.8 square kilometres Its population is approximately 207,745. Administratively, Bila Tserkva is incorporated as a city of oblast importance. It additionally serves because the place of business of Bila Tserkva Raion, though administratively it does no longer belong to the raion.

The metropolis become based in 1032 as Yuriiv by means of Yaroslav the Wise, whose Christian name turned into Yuri. The present call of the town, literally translated, is "White Church" and may check with the white-painted cathedral of medieval Yuriiv. Since 1363 it belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and because 1569 to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The city was granted Magdeburg Rights in 1620 by using Sigismund III Vasa. The Treaty of Bila Tserkva among the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Ukrainian Cossack rebels below Bohdan Khmelnytsky become signed here in 1651.