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In 1742, there were 108 households in
the village. Almost every household had
two bullocks. The peasants had to pay
tributes to landlords as well as to work at
their land 1.5 days per week.
In 1782, the number of the village
residents went up to 147. Mostly, the
village grew at the expense of the military
that came there for a rest, and later
stayed at those lands, which attracted
newcomers with favourable natural
conditions.

Rozdil

Rozdil is a small town, situated on the
left bank of the Kolodnytsya river (the
left tributary of the Dniester). For the
first time, its name was mentioned in the

charter of king Wladislaw II from 1462.
The word “rozdil” stands for “boundary”;
in fact, the place where the town was
founded served as a boundary between
two villages.
In 1569, Mikolaj Czerniejowski got
the right to set up a town on the “virgin
ground”, in other words, on uninhabited
lands. On January 5th 1745, Magdeburg
rights were granted to the town by king
Augustus ІІІ; under which Rozdil also
got a court-of-arms: a silver horseshoe
against the blue background, with
a cavalry golden cross at the bottom, and
the same cross without on end at the top
(it was the court-of-arms the Rzewuski
family who were landlords of Rozdil at
that time).

Rozdil forest

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