Korets
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Korets (, ; ; ; Koritz) is a city in Rivne Oblast, Ukraine. The city is located on the Korchyk river, 66 kilometers to the east of Rivne. It was the administrative center of Korets Raion until the raion was abolished in 2020. Population:
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Korets
- Settlement.native_name
- Корець
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- uk
- Settlement.other_name
- Korzec
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Korets vlasenko.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- General view of Korets
- Settlement.image_shield
- COA Kopets.png
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Oblast
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Rivne Oblast
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Raion
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Rivne Raion
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Hromada
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Korets urban hromada
- Settlement.established_title
- First mentioned
- Settlement.established_date
- 1150
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Корець
- Country
- Ukraine
- Located in
- Rovensky Uyezd
- Population
- 6984
- Area
- 6
- Elevation
- 214
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Центральна площа Корця.jpg
- Dialing code
- 3651
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- Commons category
- Korets
- topic's main category
- Category:Korets
- native label
- Корець
- inception
- 1150-00-00
- postal code
- 34700
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
- time of earliest written record
- 1150-00-00
- P8168
- 113
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
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Korets (, ; ; ; Koritz) is a city in Rivne Oblast, Ukraine. The city is located on the Korchyk river, 66 kilometers to the east of Rivne. It was the administrative center of Korets Raion until the raion was abolished in 2020. Population:
==History== Known since 1150 as Korchesk, Korets was fortified by Prince Theodor Ostrogski in the late 14th century. At that time, the town was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Korets” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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