Ternopol'

• Location: Ukraine
• Variant names: Ternopil' , Tarnopol

A province and a city named 'Blackthorn Field' from the Russian tërn 'blackthorn' and pole 'field'. Founded as a Polish city, it was annexed by Austria at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and only returned to Poland in 1920. It was then annexed by the Soviet Union in 1939 following the Nazi–Soviet non-aggression pact signed in August that year.

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