H10 is an important Ukraine national highway (H-highway) in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Chernivtsi Oblasts.
History H10 belonged to the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria until 1918 and was known as the Beskydy Reichsstraße. In 1817, it was built as the second east-west connection leading from Bielsko-Biała to Chernivtsi and was initially referred to as the Carpathian Road.M. Stöger: Beschreibung der Karpathenstraße in Galizien. In: Oesterreichisches Archiv für Geschichte, Erdbeschreibung, Staatenkunde, Kunst und Literatur. Jg. 2, 1832, , S. 597–599, 603–604, 606–607. In 1893, there were 21 toll booths on the 260-kilometer stretch between Stryi and Chernivtsi.Kundmachung der k.k. Finanz-Landes-Direktion in Lemberg vom 21. September 1892 Zl. 69.797, betreffend die Vermauthung der Aerarialstraßen in Galizien. LGBl. Nr. 73/1892, S. 181.
The stretch from Stryi to Stanislaviv (former name of Ivano-Frankivsk) belonged to the territory of the Second Polish Republic between 1918 and 1939 and was declared a state road (droga państwowa) by the Polish Roads Act of 10 December 1920.
See also
Roads in Ukraine Ukraine State Highways
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