Berezne

Also known as Bereźne, Brezhna, Berëzno, Beresne, Berezene, Brezne, Berezno

Berezne (, ) is a city in Rivne Oblast, Ukraine. It is located on the Sluch River north of Rivne. It was the administrative center of Berezne Raion until it was merged with Rivne Raion in 2020. Population:

Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Berezne
Settlement.native_name: Березне
Settlement.native_name_lang: uk
Settlement.settlement_type: City
Settlement.image_skyline: File:Berezne Church.JPG
Settlement.image_caption: Holy Trinity Church
Settlement.image_shield: File:Berezne.png
Settlement.mapsize: 250px
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Oblast
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Rivne Oblast
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Raion
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Rivne Raion
Settlement.established_title: First mentioned
Settlement.established_date: 1445
Settlement.established_title1: Magdeburg law
Settlement.established_date1: 1584
Settlement.leader_title: Mayor

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Березне
Population: 13285
Area: 3.50
Elevation: 169
Official website: bermrada.gov.ua
Image: Berezne Church.JPG
Dialing code: 3653

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Commons category: Berezne
native label: Березне
time of earliest written record: 1584-00-00
P8168: Cuba Gooding Sr.
postal code: 34600

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World War II
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== Overview == Berezne (historically known also as Bereźno as well as , and ) was established in 1446 within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Since the Union of Lublin the town was part of the Kingdom of Poland, where it remained until the Partitions of Poland by Austria, Prussia and Russia. The town was overrun by Khmelnytsky in the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648 and experienced bloody pogroms which took many innocent lives. Annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793, Berezne was ceded to Poland in 1919–21 during the Peace of Riga. In the Second Polish Republic there was a garrison of the Border Protection Corps Bereźne Battalion in the town. Until the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Bereźne belonged the Wołyń Voivodeship's County of Kostopol. According to the Polish census of 1931, the whole county had a population of 159,600 inhabitants, including 102,609 Ukrainians (overwhelmingly in villages: at 100,651), 34,450 Poles (32,189 in villages), and 10,786 Jews, along with significant numbers of Germans, Czechs, and Ruthenians.