Pokuttia remained under Polish rule until 1772, the year in which it became part of the Austrian Empire. Ukrainian opryshoks were active in the region from the 17th to the 19th century. With the collapse of Austria-Hungary in the aftermath of World War I, the greater part of Pokuttia became part of the West Ukrainian People's Republic and disputed with Poland. Part of Poland in 1919–1939, it then passed to the Soviet Union. The area was attached to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, falling to Nazi German control after the start of Operation Barbarossa until 1944. It was then incorporated into the Soviet controlled Western Ukrainian oblast of Ivano-Frankivsk, roughly corresponding to the southern half of the oblast. After Ukraine declared independence in 1991, the territory became part of the country.
