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Zhvanets () is a village (a selo) in Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion (district) of Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Zhvanets rural hromada, one of the of Ukraine. The village's population was 1,529 as of the 2001 Ukrainian census. Zhvanets
In 1620, the Turks and Tatars invaded Podolia having destroyed the fortress. The following year, 40,000 troops led by a Ukrainian Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny joined Zhvanets and took part in the Khotyn War.
In 1646, King Władysław IV Vasa granted Żwaniec Magdeburg rights. It was a private town.
In the autumn of 1653, the troops of John II Casimir Vasa and Bohdan Khmelnytsky met near the city during Khmelnytsky Uprising resulting in the Siege of Zhvanets. In 1672, Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV invaded and seized the town. The castle was converted into a prison for captive Poles, including merchants from Kamieniec Podolski, thus, during the Battle of Chocim of 1673, it was destroyed by the order of John III Sobieski. During the Polish–Ottoman War of 1683–1699, John III Sobieski returned to Żwaniec in 1684, and the armies of Great Crown Hetman Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski and Lithuanian Great Hetman Kazimierz Jan Sapieha joined forces there. After the Polish victory in the war, the return of Żwaniec to Poland was confirmed in 1699. After the war, the devastated border town was re-settled by newcomers from Przemyśl and Sanok, Armenians from Kamieniec Podolski and Greeks from Chocim, with the latter two groups specializing in trade. The town was visited by King Stanisław August Poniatowski in 1781.
The town was annexed by Russian Empire in the Second Partition of Poland in 1793. A customs chamber was established in the town, which was abolished in 1812. The town was visited by Emperors Alexander I of Russia and Nicholas I of Russia in 1818 and 1843, respectively.
In early August 1914, the town was occupied by Austro-Hungarian troops, but then again occupied by Russian army. In February 1918, it was again captured by Austro-Hungarian troops. At the end of 1918, the town was captured by the troops of the Directory. In 1920, the town was administratively part of the Podolian District of newly reborn Poland, before it passed to Soviet Ukraine, and afterwards it was located near Ukraine's tripoint with Poland and Romania.
During World War II, it was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944.
August 24, 1991, the village Zhvanets became part of the independent country of Ukraine.
Since September 8, 2017, through the merger of village councils, Zhvanets has become the center of the community of the same name.
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