Monument Roksolana
Rohatyn City is home to Ukrainian girl that was captured Tatars, but she managed to become a global political figure. This is the Roxolana, wife of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. To honor named in the central area, which now houses many architectural monuments. On the same square is a monument Roksolana in Rohatyn.
History monument
Central Square took name from the famous native city - Roksolany. In the center of the main square Rohatyn in 1999 Roksolana monument.
History Roksolany
Anastasia Havrylivna Rohatyn was born in 1506, the family priest Gabriel Lisowski.
During a raid of Tatars in 1522 the young Anastasia was taken prisoner. On the first day, when ordynets brought captive market, she accidentally caught the eye of a young Vizier of Sultan Suleiman I. Turk immediately struck dazzling beauty girl, and he decided to buy it for a present Sultan. She liked the Sultan so that he made her his wife.
The beauty and intelligence Roksolany our days walking the amazing history. The daughter of a priest who became the wife of the Turkish Sultan Suleiman I, actually ran the entire Ottoman Empire.
How to get there
Roksolany Monument located on the same square, in the center of Rohatyn. Square Galician adjacent street, it crosses the street Shevchenko, which goes directly to the area. It regularly attend local shuttle bus which takes you to the area.