Kremenets

Kremenets - an ancient city in the Ternopil region of Ukraine, Kremenets district administrative center . It was first mentioned in chronicles in 1227 Hypatian g in connection with the battle of Prince Daniel Romanovich of Volyn with the Hungarian king .

Until the present day in the city survived more than 50 historical and cultural monuments.In the city the railway station .

In the city there are sugar , tobacco- fermentation , cheese factories , a furniture factory and other enterprises.

It is believed that Kremenetskaya fortress was built in pre-Christian times in VIII-IX centuries. and there is a hypothesis that after the formation of the IX.Kiev Power, Kremenets came of it. In addition, the first mention of Kremenets found in encyclopedic dictionaries for Polish in 1064

In the 1241g . Kremenets was able to withstand the hordes of Batu Khan .

In 1340after the destruction of the Galicia- Volyn state for forty years Kremenets passed from hand to hand between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Hungary and Polskim . Only in 1382 the Lithuanian princes finally established their power in the Volyn region .

In the 1569g .as a result of the Union of Lublin , together with all Ukrainian lands, which were under the rule of Lithuania, Kremenets became part of a Joint Polish-Lithuanian power , called Rzeczpospolita .

In 1533, the city worked on the publication Bible pioneer Francis Skorina.

In the beginning of the XVII century the town was built Monastery of the Epiphany , in which the Metropolitan Petro Mohyla in 1636 founded the fraternal school.

In autumn 1648 the Cossack colonel Maxim Krivonos came with an army to the castle and laid siege to Kremenetsky .In October , after a six-week siege and battles long the stronghold was taken , the Polish garrison was captured, and the castle was completely destroyed. The city lost its defensive significance , and fortress has not been restored . Today the castle from the ruins of the gothic tower Vrátna arch travel, remains of walls and tower over the new home .

In the years 1793-1917 was a member of the Russian Empire.

in 1921. Kremenets part of Poland. In 1939. of the Molotov- Ribentroppa goes into the USSR.

Today, the city -museum is a historical monument of sovereign Ukraine .

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