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Pokuttya or Pokuttia (Template:Lang-ua, Template:Lang-ro, Template:Lang-pl) is a historical area of Central Europe, between upper Prut and Cheremosh rivers, in modern Ukraine. Historically it was a culturally-distinct area inhabitated by Romanians and Ruthenians on the previously-unpopulated borderlands between the lands of Lviv and Halych. Although the historical centre of the area was Kolomyia, the name itself is derived from the name of the town of Kuty and literally means by Kuty ("Kut" by itself means "corner").

History

Initially a part of Kievan Rus' and one of its successor states, Halych-Volhynia, the area was annexed in 1349 by Casimir III of Poland, who, needing financial support in his battles against the Teutonic Knights, used the region as a guarantee in a loan which he obtained from Petru I of Moldavia. Subsequently, the region became a matter for dispute among the two countries, because the debt had never been paid in full by Poland. In 1498, it was conquered by the Moldavian prince Stephen the Great - in 1531, after the Battle of Obertyn, it was recaptured by Poland's hetman Jan Tarnowski, who defeated Petru Rareş.

Following the Partitions of Poland of 1772, Pokuttya fell under the Habsburg Monarchy.

In the wake of the World War I and the fall of Austria-Hungary, it became disputed between Poland and a short-lived West Ukrainian People's Republic. However, during the Polish-Ukrainian War it was seized without fight by forces of Romania and handed over to Polish authorities. After the Polish-Soviet War, it remained in Poland.

In the effect of the 1939 invasion and partition of Poland between Nazi Germany and Soviet Union, the area was attached to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (falling to Nazi control after the start of Operation Barbarossa and until 1944). It remains a part of modern Ukraine, incorporated into several western Ukrainian oblasts.

Places of interest

• Deliatyn (Deltyatyn)
• Yaremcha
• Vorokhta
• Verkhovyna
• Kosmach
• Lanchyn Pechenizhyn
• Kolomyia
• Hody-Dobrovidka
• Zabolotiv
• Yabluniv
• Kosiv
• Kobaky
• Kuty, Stari Kuty
• Carpathian National Park

• Galicia (Central Europe)
• Ukrainian historical regions
• Moldavia