Prospering under Tatar rule & expanding as it intersected trade routes, this city became a capital in the 15th century
... First 
mentioned in the early 14th century, it was a cattle and crop market town ..... of 
the Vistula River on trade routes linking Warsaw to the cities of southeastern ... to 
Ternopil occurs in 1524, when under Polish rule, it was sacked by the Tatars.