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There is a widespread opinion in local history and some scientific publications that in the 18th century, especially in the ownership of the Czartoryski princes, Medzhybizh castle was transformed into a luxury romantic residence. The decorative garden was allegedly created as a result of Izabella Czartoryskas interest in English parks, as a continuation of the architectural program of the main residence in Pulawy. There is even a statement that the garden was arranged in the inner territory of Medzhybizh castle.

The article presents the chronology of the Turkish and Polish stay in Medzhybizh and control over the Medzhybizh Castle based on documents and publications of archival materials. The short period of Turkish rule, which actually lasted about 8 years, as well as the difficult situation for the Ottomans in Podillіa in 1672-1699, cast doubt on the widespread narratives about the 27 years of Ottoman occupation of Medzhybizh. Instead, there is evidence of the inability of the Turkish military to hold the castle.

The authors for the first time put into scientific circulation an unique source of historical cartography - a military topographic map of the Podillia province in 1841-1847 by Major General A. Fittinghof (from the corps of military topographers of the Russian Empire). The map is unique source in that it reflects the condition of many Podilian settlements before the regulation and reconstruction of the 19th-20th centuries, which distorted the historical buildings, captures the relics of fortifications in towns and castles. The scale of the map is 200 soot.

Results of paleomagnetic studies of Lower Devonian sedimentary gray and red rocks from the south-west of Ukraine (the Dniester River basin) are presented. Samples are gray argillite limestones and dolomites of Tiverian series and red argillite and sandstones of Dniester series. Time scale is comparable to Lochkovian of international geologic time scale. Stable palaeomagnetic components of the most samples show remagnetization of rocks (Permian pole, Φ=45°S, Λ=340°E, dp/dm=2°/5° for Tiverian and Φ=47°S, Λ=351.5°E, dp/dm= =0.8°/1.5° for Dnistrovian series).