Horodenka (Ukrainian: Городенка, IPA: [ɦoroˈdɛnkɐ] ⓘ; Polish: Horodenka, occasionally Horodence; Yiddish: האָראָדענקע, romanized: Horodenke) is a city located in Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in Western Ukraine.
The city is located near Dniester river, its upper stream section, and in area where three historical regions meet, Pokuttia (Angled land), Bucovina (Beech woodland), and Podolia (Lower land).
[6] In 1668 it became one of the Polish towns to be chartered under Magdeburg rights, through the use of a privilege known as "settlement with German law”.
[10] Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Nazi Germany until 1944, and re-occupied by the Soviet Union, which annexed it from Poland in 1945.
[11] About a dozen Jews survived and formed a partisan combat unit which fought against the Nazis and hid in the forests.