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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Romny (Ukrainian: ¿¿¿¿¿¿; Russian: ¿¿¿¿¿¿) is a city in the northern Ukrainian Oblast of Sumy. It is located on the Romen River and is the administrative center of the Romny Raion. The villages of Lutschky (438 inhabitants), Kolisnykove (43 inhabitants) and Hrabyne belong to the Romny city administration. The city was founded in 902 AD September 16, 2002 noted 1,100 th anniversary Romny was first mentioned in documents in 1096 (as Romen; the name, originally that of the river, is of Baltic origin, cf. Lithuanian romus ‘quiet’). By 1638, the city had a population of 6,000 inhabitants, which made it by far the largest settlement in the area. In 1781, the city was granted a charter by the Tsarina Catherine II. In the period between 1979 and 1989, the population rose from 53,016 to 57,502 inhabitants.