Eastern Europe
Belarus
Grodno Oblast

Mir

Mir is a town in the Kareličy region of in . Prior to the 2nd World War it was known as an international centre of Jewish learning.
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  • Type: Town with 2,340 residents
  • Description: urban-type settlement in Belarus
  • Also known as: “Mir, Belarus”
  • Address: Карэліцкі раён

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saint Nicolas‘ Church and Chanpel-tomb of Svyatopolk-Mirsky princes.

Church
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Saint Nicolas' Roman Catholic Church in Mir, Belarus, is a Renaissance church commissioned by Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł. It was probably designed by Giovanni Maria Bernardoni and erected without his personal participation in 1599–1605.

Church
Photo: Olga Maximova 1975, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chapel-burial vault of Svyatopolk-Mirsky family, also known as Spasskaya Chapel, is an architectural monument located in the urban settlement of Mir, Karelichy District, Grodno Region, , and situated near the Mir Castle within the English-style park, established at the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century.

Church
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vyalikae Syalo and Simakovo.

Hamlet
Photo: Zelyoniy.anton, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a hamlet, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Mir.

Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a hamlet, which is situated 6 km south of Mir.

Hamlet
Photo: Zelyoniy.anton, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a hamlet, which is situated 7 km southeast of Mir.

Mir

Latitude
53.4537° or 53° 27′ 14″ north
Longitude
26.4659° or 26° 27′ 57″ east
Population
2,340
Elevation
170 metres (558 feet)
Open location code
9G58FF38+F9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 242979035
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
625128
Wiki­data ID
Q922668
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Yiddish—“Mir” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Mir”
  • Belarusian: “Мір (Карэліцкі раён)”
  • Belarusian: “Мір”
  • Bengali: “মীর”
  • Cebuano: “Mir”
  • Chechen: “Мир”
  • Chinese: “密尔”
  • Chinese: “密爾”
  • Chinese: “米爾”
  • Czech: “Mir”
  • Dutch: “Mir”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مير، بيلاروسيا”
  • Esperanto: “Mir”
  • Estonian: “Mir”
  • Finnish: “Mir”
  • French: “Mir”
  • German: “Mir”
  • Hebrew: “מיר”
  • Hungarian: “Mir”
  • Indonesian: “Mir, Belarus”
  • Indonesian: “Mir”
  • Italian: “Mir”
  • Japanese: “ミール”
  • Korean: “미르”
  • Latvian: “Mira”
  • Lithuanian: “Miras”
  • Lithuanian: “Myras”
  • Lithuanian: “Myrius”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mir”
  • Persian: “میر، بلاروس”
  • Polish: “Mir”
  • Romanian: “Mir”
  • Russian: “Мир (Гродненская область)”
  • Russian: “Мир”
  • Serbian: “Мир”
  • Silesian: “Mir”
  • Slovak: “Mir”
  • Spanish: “Mir”
  • Swedish: “Mіr”
  • Tatar: “Мир”
  • Ukrainian: “Мір”
  • Western Frisian: “Mir”
  • Yiddish: “מיר, בעלארוס”
  • Yiddish: “מיר”
  • “Mir”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Mir”. Photo: Sergiusz, CC BY-SA 3.0.