 In 1548-9 the Tatars invaded; from 1648-1655 the area suffered from the Cossack uprising under Bohdan Khmelnytsky, hetman of the Zaporozhian who joined forces with the Tartars against Poland.In the following years many wars took place there.From the first partition of Poland in 1772 until 1918, the town (named "UHNOW") was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austria side after the compromise of 1867), in the "Rawa ruska" (Rava-Ruska) district, in Austrian Galicia province (Crown land).