[2] The Battle of Obertyn took place here on August 22, 1531, fought between Moldavian Prince Petru Rareş and Polish King Zygmunt Stary.

[3] Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by the Soviets until 1941, then by Germany until 1944, and then re-occupied by the Soviets in 1944, and eventually annexed from Poland in 1945.

[4] In June and September 1942, the Jewish community was moved to a ghetto in Kolomyia and then on to the extermination camp in Bełżec.

[5] In 1943, the German occupiers killed nearly all the remaining Jews in Obertyn by shooting them or burning them alive in their houses.

On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Obertyn became a rural settlement.