Ancient Volyn village.
The first written mention of the village dates 1555.
In ancient times, Sylne was located further south, closer to the neighboring village of Horodyshche. Due to the changes in small rivers flow and the epidemic of plague, the settlement gradually moved to its modern borders.
In the XV-XVII centuries Sylne was owned by the famous princely families – Radziwill and Czartoryski.
From 1795 Sylne became the center of the parish as a part of Lutsk county, Volyn province.
The parish included the villages of Berestyane, Horodyshche, Domashiv, Zhuravychi, Znamyrivka, Karpylivka, Klubochyn, Krasnovolya, Lypne, Mykiv, Pohulyanka, Tsuman, Chornyzh, Kholonevychi, Yakubyntsi, as well as many settlements that no longer exist.
During the First World War, the front line passed through Sylne. An Austrian shooting range is preserved – a high earthen hill on the western outskirts of the village, which locals call a “mountain”.
In the interwar period, Sylne was the center of the commune in Lutsk county, Volyn voivodeship. The commune included 70 settlements with 2,443 yards, 157 other houses, a population of 16,345 people, including 2,650 Poles and 2,273 Jews.
Church of St. John the Theologian, an architectural site of local significance, is located in Sylne. It was built in 1825 at the expense of local peasants. It is a three-part wooden church with a bell tower that was constructed later and has two entrances.
Today the village has more than 600 inhabitants and is a part of the Tsuman territorial community.
