Mukacheve

Mukacheve, city, western Ukraine, on the Latoritsa (Latoritsya) River. Its location controls the southern approach to a major pass across the Carpathian Mountains, today followed by road and rail. This position gave Mukacheve a key fortress role in the region known as Subcarpathian Ruthenia and made it a highly contested possession. The Hungarians wrested it from Rus control in the 11th century. It subsequently came under the rule of Transylvania in the 16th and 17th...