Samar (Template:Lang-uk, Template:Lang-uk, Old Samara) is a city neighborhood of the Samarskyi District (urban district) of the Dnipro Municipality in southern Ukraine.
Samar
Самар | |
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neighborhood (old Cossack city) | |
.png)  Samar Location of Samar within the city of Dnipro  Samar Samar (Ukraine) | |
| Coordinates: 48°30′02″N 35°09′48″E / 48.50056°N 35.16333°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Municipality | Dnipro Municipality |
| Urban district | Samarskyi District |
| First mentioned | 1576 |
| Fortress liquidated | 1783 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
History
The exact year of foundation of the city is still researched.
The earliest mentioning of Samar as a settlement in Lower Dnieper region is a royal edict of the King of Poland Stephen Báthory in 1576. It was a river port administrated by local Cossacks.
In 1668 at its ___location was built Novobohorodytska (Bohorodytska) fortress with an area of 70 hectares (170 acres).[1]
In 2001 the Cabinet of Ukraine recognized the fortress as a historical landmark of national significance.[1]
In 2011 the Ukrainian Weekly informed that archaeologists of the Dnipro National University discovered some artifacts dated around 1520s.[2]
References
- ^ a b Yulia Ratsybarska. "Dnipro is a city of three fortresses", not a "City of Sovok" («Дніпро – місто трьох фортець», а не «місто совка»). Radio Liberty. 28 September 2016
- ^ Iryna Reva, Oleh Rypan. The Old Samar (Cтара Cамар). Ukrainian Weekly. 18 July 2011
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