Kamianets-Podilskyi
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Kamianets-Podilskyi is a city on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine, to the north-east of Chernivtsi. Formerly the administrative center of Khmelnytskyi Oblast, the city is now the administrative c
Zamek w Kamieńcu Podolskim 2019
Тринітарський костьол та дзвіниця
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Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle
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The Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle is a former Ruthenian-Lithuanian castle and a later three-part Polish fortress located in the historic city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine, in the historic region of Po
Kamianets-Podilskyi
…Starting from the late 15th century, separate Ruthenian and Armenian courts functioned in the city based on the respective law of each community. The ancient castle was reconstructed and substantially expanded by the Polish kings to defend Poland from the southwest against Ottoman and Tatar invasions, thus it was…
Seven of the castle's original twelve towers dominate over the surrounding Smotrych River canyon landscape.
An old lithograph depicting the castle walls with a settlement underneath, which still exists today
Ustym Karmaliuk. Vasily Tropinin, c. 1820s oil on canvas. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Interior courtyard and view of the castle's museum