Prykarpattia

Prykarpattia (Ukrainian: Пpикapпaття) is the Ukrainian geographical term for the Subcarpathian historical region of Central Europe, at the foot of the Carpathian mountains, in modern Ukraine, consisting of today's Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (Ukrainian: Івано-Франківська область, translit. Ivano-Frankivs’ka oblast’). It forms part of the larger historic region of Galicia, was the main body of the historic region of eastern Halychyna; which in the 13th century was a part of the Kingdom of Rus and the Halych-Volyn Principality (see Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia). Along with the Lviv and Ternopil regions Prykarpattia is a component of the Carpathian Euroregion.