Kamyanyets
Kamyenyets or Kamenets, also known as Kamyanyets, is a town in Brest Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Kamyenyets District. The town is located in the northwestern corner of Brest Region on the Lyasnaya River, about 40 kilometres north from Brest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 8,340 residents
- Description: city in Belarus
- Also known as: “Kamenets”, “Kamenets-Litevske”, “Kamenets-Litevski”, “Kamenets-Litovsk”, “Kamenets-Litovskiy”, “Kamenetz”, “Kameniec”, “Kamianiec”, “Kamieniec”, “Kamieniec Litewski”, “Kamjanec”, “Kamjanets”, “Kamjanyec”, “Kamyenyets”, “Kamyenyets Litevski”, “Kmenets-Litovskiy”, “Komenitz”, and “Komenitz D Lita”
- Address: Камянецкі раён
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tower of Kamyanyets.
Tower of Kamyanyets
Photo: Alexander Wolczek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Tower of Kamyenyets, also called the White Tower, is the main landmark of the town of Kamyenyets in Belarus. The name Bielaja Vieža, which literally means White Tower or White Fortress in Belarusian, presumably derives from the tower's proximity to the Belavezhskaya Pushcha Forest, but not from its color, which has been brick-red through the ages, never white.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mikalajeva and Žyličy.
Mikalajeva
Hamlet
Photo: Da voli, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mikalajeva is a hamlet, which is situated 4½ km west of Kamyanyets.
Žyličy
Hamlet
Photo: Da voli, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Žyličy is a hamlet, which is situated 6 km west of Kamyanyets.
Siulki
Hamlet
Photo: Da voli, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Siulki is a hamlet, which is situated 7 km west of Kamyanyets.
Kamyanyets
- Categories: city of raion subordinance, urban settlement in Belarus, and locality
- Location: Brest Oblast, Belarus, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
52.40186° or 52° 24′ 7″ northLongitude
23.82183° or 23° 49′ 19″ eastPopulation
8,340Elevation
141 metres (463 feet)Open location code
9G45CR2C+PPOpenStreetMap ID
node 242978889OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
627711Wikidata ID
Q956614
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yiddish—“Kamyanyets” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կամենեց (Բրեստի մարզ)”
- Armenian: “Կամենեց”
- Belarusian: “Каменец”
- Belarusian: “Камянец”
- Bulgarian: “Каменец”
- Catalan: “Kamieniec”
- Cebuano: “Kamianiec”
- Chechen: “Каменец”
- Chinese: “卡梅涅茨”
- Chinese: “卡緬涅茨 (白俄羅斯)”
- Chinese: “卡緬涅茨”
- Czech: “Kamenec”
- Czech: “Kameněc”
- Czech: “Kamieniec”
- Czech: “Kamjanec”
- Dutch: “Kamieniec”
- Estonian: “Kamianiec”
- Estonian: “Kamieniec”
- Finnish: “Kamenets”
- Finnish: “Kamjanets”
- French: “Kamianets”
- French: “Kamianiets”
- French: “Kamieniets”
- Galician: “Kamieniec”
- German: “Kamenez”
- German: “Kamieniec”
- Hebrew: “קמניץ דליטא”
- Hebrew: “קמניץ”
- Hungarian: “Kamjanyec”
- Italian: “Kamenec”
- Japanese: “カミャネツ”
- Japanese: “カミャネッツ”
- Japanese: “カメネツ”
- Korean: “카먀네츠”
- Korean: “카메네츠”
- Latin: “Camenecum”
- Latvian: “Kameņeca”
- Latvian: “Kamjaņeca”
- Lithuanian: “Kamianecas”
- Northern Frisian: “Kamenets”
- Persian: “کامینیتس”
- Polish: “Kamieniec Litewski”
- Polish: “Kamieniec”
- Romanian: “Kameneț”
- Romanian: “Kamieniec”
- Russian: “Каменец-Литовск”
- Russian: “Каменец”
- Serbian: “Каменец”
- Serbian: “Камјанец”
- Spanish: “Kámieniets”
- Swedish: “Kamenets”
- Swedish: “Kamjanets”
- Tatar: “Камәнетс”
- Tatar: “Каменец”
- Ukrainian: “Кам’янець-Литовський”
- Ukrainian: “Кам’янець”
- Ukrainian: “Каменець”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kamjanec”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kamjenjec”
- Yiddish: “Kamenets Litovsk”
- Yiddish: “ליטא”
- Yiddish: “קאמעניץ”
- “Kamieniec”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kamenets district executive committee and Падатковая.
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