ARCHIVAL SOURCES FOR STUDYING THE HISTORY OF BROSHNIV-OSADA UNITED TERRITORIAL COMMUNITY AS PARTS OF THE AREA BOYKIVSHCHYNA

Abstract

The research was carried out within the framework of the project «Gateway to the Central Gorgans: Intercultural Dialogue on the Polish-Ukrainian Borderland», the purpose of which was to draw attention to the historical and cultural heritage of the Broshniv-Osada united territorial community, which is a constituent part of the ethnographic area of Boykivshchyna. The main purpose of the study was to identify the corpus of documents in archival and library institutions of Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv regions about the history of the Broshniv-Osad united territorial community. The search for documents of a socio-economic, cultural, and religious nature was carried out. As a result, a significant volume of a wide variety of documents was discovered. Among the processed documents, especially valuable, in our opinion, are metrical books of various denominations. This corpus of sources is the largest and most informative in terms of volume. Important information about the economic and social life of the region is reflected in the «Josephine Metric» and «Franciscan Metric». Note that these landmarks are considered the first land cadastres of Galicia, known in the historical scientific literature as the "«Josephine» (1785–1788) and «Franciscan» (1819–1820) metriсs.These documents are an inexhaustible source for studying the history of the development of productive forces in agriculture and industry, socio-economic relations and culture in the western Ukrainian lands during the period of the dissolution of the feudal-serf system and the emergence of capitalist relations. Documents of a legal nature deserve special attention: lawsuits, complaints, decisions. This part of the sources is significant from the point of view of studying the level of development of legal and property relations in the region. We believe that the intensification of work in this direction will contribute to the introduction into scientific circulation of an array of previously unpublished materials, which will contribute to the further deepening of scientific developments, will contribute to the development of tourism and popularization of the historical and cultural heritage of the Broshniv-Osada united territorial community as part of the area of Boykivshchyna.