District town in Volhynia. In 1629 only three houses there were owned by Jews; but a fairly large Jewish community must have existed, for in that year a synagogue was built ("Arkhiv Yugo …

Ovruch District, Volhynia Province

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After Right-Bank Ukraine was annexed to Russia and the Volhynia province was created, these bodies were reorganised on the basis of the Charter [gramota] on the Rights and Privileges of …

Norinsk is a village in the Ovruch district, Zhitomir region. In the XVI-XVIII centuries, it was a shtetl in the Ovruch district of the Volyn voivodship in the Commonwealth of Lithuania.

Volhynia (Rus. Volyn; Pol. Wolyá) is a historic region in N.W. Ukraine. Under czarist rule most of it was incorporated into the province of Volhynia. Today, the greatest part of it is divided up into …

Volhynia was located in what is now northwest Ukraine, on the border with Poland and Belarus. Volhynia was ruled by Poland until the late 18th century, when Poland was partitioned by the …

Ovruch (Ukrainian: Овруч, IPA: [ˈɔu̯rʊtʃ] ⓘ) is a city in Korosten Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. Until 2020, it was the administrative center of the former Ovruch Raion, until it was …

In 1641 Ovruch was granted the rights of Magdeburg law. After the partition of Poland in 1793, it was annexed by Russia and became a county town in Volhynia gubernia. Today the town has …

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