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Ger. Kolomea, Pol. Ko
omyja,
city (1989 pop. 63,000), W Ukraine, on the Prut River and in the Carpathian
foothills. It is a rail junction and agricultural trade center. Industries
include brewing, food processing, woodworking, and light manufacturing. First
mentioned in 1240, Kolomyya was a Ukrainian settlement in the Halych-Volhynian
principality. It passed in the 14th cent. to the Poles, who fortified it.
Kolomyya was taken by Austria during the Polish partition of 1772 and became
part of the newly independent republic of Ukraine in 1918 but reverted to Poland
in 1920. It was incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in
1939.