Stryi

Stryi is a city positioned at the left financial institution of the Stryi River in Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. Serving because the workplace of Stryi Raion, it's far precise as a town of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. Stryi is considered to be the first metropolis in Ukraine to undergo the blue-over-yellow Ukrainian national flag when it changed into hoisted at the flagpole of the Town Hall on March 14, 1990 earlier than the autumn of the Soviet regime. Most possibly the town were given its call from the call of the river Stryi, one of the tributaries of Dniester.

Obviously, the name of the river is older than the metropolis that was based later. Stryi, as a name of river is a totally antique name and means "move". Its etymology stems from an Indo-European root sreu. It may also derive from Iranian phrase "Styr", which means "huge" in Ossetian, as there may be also other Styr River in Ukraine. The region became inhabited by way of the White Croats and it's been established that name Horvat is also of Iranian origin.