page_title: Zhovkva
section_title: Late modern era
hierarchical_section_title: Zhovkva / History / Late modern era
caption_attribution_description: English: Market place in Zovkva Polski: Rynek w Żółkwi Polski: Кароль Ауер. Ринкова площа (сучасна Вічева) в Жовкві.
context_page_description: Zhovkva is a city in Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Zhovkva Raion. Its population is approximately 13,834.
context_section_description: From the First Partition of Poland in 1772 until 1918, the town (named Żółkiew) was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austrian part of Austro-Hungary after the compromise of 1867), head of the district with the same name, one of the 78 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Austrian Galicia province (Crown land)
  in 1900.
  The West Ukrainian People's Republic, established on November 1, 1918, included the whole Zhovkva povit (county). The town came under Polish control in May 1919, seven months after the re-establishment of independent Poland, confirmed by the Paris Peace Conference in June 1919 and the Peace of Riga in 1921. It was a county (powiat) seat located in the Lwów Voivodeship. In the interwar period the 6th Cavalry Regiment of the Polish Army, named after hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski, was stationed in the town.
caption: 19th-century view of the market square with the St. Lawrence's Church, drawing by Karel Auer
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