A fort was built with name "Rogach" ("Deer") on the place where the duchess supposedly stepped out of the forest.

[citation needed] In 1415, under Polish rule, it was granted Magdeburg rights, and subsequently developed into an important trading and manufacturing town.

In the 16th century a renowned school of icon painting arose in Rohatyn, and in the 1580s an Orthodox brotherhood was founded obtaining the stauropegion (a monastery exempt from the control of the local bishop) status.

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 Germany until 1944, and re-occupied by the Soviet Union, which annexed it from Poland in 1945.

[citation needed] Today it is an important highway junction; 26 percent of its inhabitants work in the transportation industry.

[4][5] The Books of Jacob, Nobel winner Olga Tokarczuk's magnum opus, begins in Rohatyn.