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Luninyets or Luninets (Belarusian: Лунінец, romanized: Luniniec; Russian: Лунинец; [2] Polish: Łuniniec; Yiddish: לונינייץ, romanized: Luninitz) is a town in Brest Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Luninyets District. [1] As of 2024, it has a population of 23,592. [1] It is home to Luninets air base.
The Brest region has a population of 1,380,391, [7] about 14,7% of the national total. About 47.2% of the region's population are men, and the remaining 52.8% are women. Number of inhabitants per 1 km2 is 43. [4] Share of urban population is increasing continuously since the 1950s (17.1% in 1950, 70.5% in 2017). [8]
Kobryn (Belarusian: Кобрын; Polish: Kobryń; Ukrainian: Кобринь; Yiddish: קאָברין) or Kobrin (Russian: Кобрин), is a town in Brest Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Kobryn District. [1] It is located in the southwestern corner of Belarus, where the Mukhavets river and Dnieper–Bug Canal meet.
Within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Davyd-Haradok was part of Brest Litovsk Voivodeship. In 1793, Davyd-Haradok was acquired by the Russian Empire in the course of the Second Partition of Poland . The 18 March 1921 Peace of Riga between Poland on one side and Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine on the other defined Davyd-Haradok (Dawidgródek) as ...
In 1795, Zhabinka was acquired by the Russian Empire as a result of the Third Partition of Poland. The name of the place was first mentioned in Russian official papers in 1817. In 1882, a railway station was built here on the railway line that connected Warsaw, Brest and Moscow. It gave a powerful impetus to the development of the place.
The Russian Empire deported Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Polish residents alike to the Far East as part of their deportations of residents from the western regions of the country. [8] [9] In 1916, the first branch of the Prosvita society in Polesia was founded in Brest.
Luninyets District or Luniniec District [2] (Belarusian: Лунінецкі раён; Russian: Лунинецкий район) is a district of Brest Region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Luninyets. [1] As of 2024, it has a population of 61,728. [1]
Mikashevichy (Belarusian: Мікашэвічы, romanized: Mikaševičy, IPA: [mʲikaˈʂɛvʲitʂɨ]; Russian: Микашевичи, romanized: Mikashevichi; Polish: Mikaszewicze) is a town in Brest Region, Belarus. [1] It is located halfway between the cities of Brest and Gomel. As of 2023, it has a population of 12,395. [1]