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[[File:Кагарлик. Ландшафтний парк.jpg|thumb|right|Sign in the Kaharlyk city park commemorated to the Torchesk city]]
'''Torchesk''' ({{langx|uk|Торчеськ}}; {{langx|ru|Торческ}}) was a [[medieval]] town, located between today's villages of Olshanytsia and Sharky in [[Kyiv Oblast]] ([[oblast|province]]) of [[central Ukraine]] near [[Kaharlyk]].
Torchesk was first mentioned in a chronicle under the year of 1093 as the center of the [[Torkil|Torks]] (and later [[Chorni Klobuky]]), who settled along the [[Ros River]] valley and served [[Kiev]]an princes.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Slavonic Review |date=1927 |publisher=School of Slavonic Studies in the University of London, Kings̓ College |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JlOlaThn_xUC&dq=%22Torchesk%22+-wikipedia+torks&pg=PA74 |language=en}}</ref> In the second half of the 12th century, Torchesk became the capital of a principality, with its rulers being appointed by the [[grand prince]]s of Kiev.
Torchesk was last mentioned in a chronicle in 1234. It appears that the town was destroyed by the [[Mongol]] invasions.
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