Zolochiv, Ukraine with Ukrainian flag T-Shirt

Zolochiv (Ukrainian: Золочів, Polish: Złoczów, Russian: Золочев) is a district town in the Lviv Oblast of Ukraine, the administrative centre of Zolochiv Raion. The town is located 60 kilometres east of Lviv. The town is crossed the highway H02 Lviv-Ternopil and the railway line Krasne-Ternopil. In 1523 it was already a city of Magdeburg rights. Zolochiv was incorporated as a town on 15 September 1523 by the Polish king Sigismund I the Old. Located in the Ruthenian Voivodship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, it belonged to several noble families. In 1772, following the First Partition of Poland, it was annexed by Austria, and in 1918, following the World War I, it passed to Poland. Zolochiv, known then as Złoczów, belonged to the Tarnopol Voivodship until the Polish September Campaign, when it was occupied by the Soviet Union. Now, it is part of independent Ukraine.