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Belz is a small city of regional importance in Sokal district of Lviv region. It is located on the rivers Solokiya and Rechytsia (Zhechytsia) — the Western Bug river tributaries belonging to the Baltic Sea. 3 kilometers from city is located the Ukrainian-Polish border, distance to Chervonograd is 12 km, to Sokal — 25 km.

There are several versions of the name of the city. According to the most common one, the name of the city comes from the old word "belz" or "bevz", meaning swampy, wet area, the same word in Boyko dialect means "impassable" "hardly passable", "wetland". Another hypothesis links the city name to the ancient the word "blyz» (white place, meadow among the dark forest). All these versions are sufficiently plausible and transmit natural conditions, where Belz is located.

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Biłgoraj is a powiat town in lubelskie voivodeship, with 18.000 residents. Located in the north–eastern part of Sandomierz Basin also known as Sandomierz Lowland, near a crossing of roads from Lublin to Tarnogród, Jarosław, and Przeworsk (road No. 835) towards Hungary, and the road from Zamość through Nisko (No.858) to Sandomierz and Kraków. Biłgoraj was founded on the edge of Solska Wilderness, between Czarna Łada and Biała Łada, which near the town merge into a single river – Łada, a tributary river of Tanew, which in turn is a tributary of San. In the pre-partition Poland, the town was under the administrative rule of lubelskie voivodeship.

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Bolekhiv is a town under the district’s jurisdiction, located at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, on the banks of the river Sukil. The town belongs to Dolyna district and is located 17 km from Dolyna. The railway Lviv-Stryi-Ivano-Frankivsk and the highway “Lviv-Chernivtsi” pass Bolekhiv. Its population is 11300 citizens (according to the data of 2001). There are several versions as to the origin of the name of the town, the most widespread of which comes from the word “volokhy”.

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The town of Busk is a district center located 50 km away from Lviv. The name of the city comes from the river on which it is located – Western (Zakhidny) Bug. Big amount of rivers and brooks facilitated the creation of unique hydro landscape of the towns’ territory. In XVIII–XIX century Busk was frequently called “The Halychyna Venice”.

There is another version of origin of the town name which is connected with the name of stork («buziok», «buzko»), which is depicted on the town heraldic. The legend of the city foundation is connected with this bird. It tells about the stork that seemingly helped the wife of Igor Davydovych to get out of the moors of the thick forest. On that place he ordered to build the fortified ancient settlement and called in honor of the bird – Busko. Certain researches connect the name of the city with the name of Slavonic chief Bozh. The roots of this name coincide with the tribal name of “Buzhany”.

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Дави́д-Городо́к [Rus.],

Давыд-Гарадок [Belarus.],

Davyd-Haradok [Eng.] is a town (since 1940) in Stolin district, Brest region in Belarus. It is situated on the river Goryn. Its population is 6 700 inhabitants (2009). It is the second biggest populated locality of Stolin district. Administrative area of the town is 1239 hectares. It is situated at the intersection of Stolin — David Gorodok — Turov — Zhytkavichy.

Landscape of this area is of flat and swamp nature.

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Дятлово – город в Гродненской области, административный центр Дятловского района.

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“Городище” [Rus.], “Гарадзішча” [Bel.], Horodyszcze [Pol.], Haradzishcha [Eng.] is an urban settlement in Baranovichi district of Brest region.

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Village Indura of Grodno district was transformed into an agrarian settlement in 2007. It is situated 25 km to the south from Grodno on the highway Grodno - Bolshaya Berisovitsa.

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Khust is a district center of Zakarpattia Region, located in Marmarosh Hollow on the confluence of the rivers Tysa and Rika near Chervona Skelia.

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Кобрын [Belorus.],

קאָברין [Yiddish],

קוברין [Heb.],

Kobryń [Polish],

Kobryn [Lithuanian],

Кобрин [Rus.],

Kobryn [Eng],
Kobryn is a town, a district center in Brest region.

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Łańcut in the Podkarpacie voivodeship is the powiat's capital with a population of 15 thousand residents. The town is located in the southern part of Kotlina Sandomierska, in the area known as Rynna Podkarpacka. Nearby, south of the town, Pogórze Rzeszowskie begins. Along Rynna Podkarpacka runs an old route from Małopolska to Ruś – Kraków to Przemyśl and Lviv – nowadays it is a road No. 4 (E 40); in Łańcut this road crosses the local road No. 877 from Leżajsk through Albigowa towards Dynów, and the local road No. 881 from Sokołów Małopolski through Kańczuga and Pruchnik towards Przemyśl. A railroad from Rzeszów towards Jarosław and Przemyśl also passes through here. North of Łańcut, parallel to road No. 4, the A4 highway is being built. The big towns in the area are Rzeszów – 16 km West, Przeworsk – 18 km East, Leżajsk – 25 km North–East, and Przemyśl – 45 km South–East.

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Łęczna, miasto powiatowe, położona jest około 30 km na pn.-wsch. od Lublina, na pograniczu Wyżyny Lubelskiej i Polesia Lubelskiego, na cyplu płaskowyżu pomiędzy rzeką Wieprz i jej dopływem – niewielką rzeczką Świnką, po wschodniej stronie Wieprza. Współcześnie miasto liczy 20 tys. mieszkańców. Przechodząca przez miasto szosa nr 82 (Lublin – Włodawa) to stary trakt na Ruś i Litwę. Dolina Wieprza w okolicy Łęcznej jest fragmentem Nadwieprzańskiego Parku Krajobrazowego.

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Lunna is a village in Grodno region, Belarus. In 2005 it was transformed into an agrarian town.

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Mir is an urban-type settlement in Korelich district, Grodno region of Belarus.

Mir became world-wide famous thanks to its Gothic-renaissance castle which was included to the list of UNESCO world heritage, as well as thanks to the well-known Yeshiva being the center of learning of the eastern-European Jewry.

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Motal (Polish Motol, Belorussian Моталь, Hebrew מוטאל) — is an Agro-town (village) in Ivanovsk district, Brest region of Belarus. It is the administrative center of Motal village council.

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Once a town, today a village, it is the seat of a gmina in bielski powiat, in Podlaskie voivodeship. Orla, situated on Wysoczyzna Bielska, is located a fair distance away from the more important routes – 5 kilometres to the South there is road 689 from Bielsk Podlaski to Hajnówka, 6 km to the South–West road 692 Bielsk Podlaski–Kleszczele, 2 km to the North an inactive since the 1990s railroad Lewki–Hajnówka (PKP station Orlanka). The larger towns in the area are: Bielsk Podlaski – 12 km North–West, and Hajnówka – 21 km West. The voivodeship's capital – Białystok – is located around 57 km to the North. From the West and South–West, Orla is surrounded by river Orlanka (a tributary river for Narew).

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Since 1991 Ostryna is an urban-type settlement in Shukino district Grodno region of the Republic of Belarus.

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Pidhaitsi is located on the coast of the river Koropets (Dniester’s confluent), 70 km from Ternopil and 30 km from Berezhany, 392 m above the sea level. Pidhaitsli is a district center in Ternopil region. As of 2013 the population amounted to 2, 866 persons. Obviously, the name comes from the designation of the place of location: “city near woods” (pid hayem). The town is located on the edge of Volyn-Podillya Upland. Due to the original microclimate it is also known as “Zymni Pidhaitsi”. It is known that the snow lies here several weeks longer than in the neighboring districts.

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Pinsk is a town, a district center in Brest region. It is situated on the bank of Pina River (the left tributary of Pripyat) 186 km to the east from Brest, 304 km to south-west from Minsk. It has a railway station on the line Brest-Homel.

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פּרוזאַני [Yiddish], 
Пружаны [Belorus.],
Prużana [Polish.]
Pružanai [Lithuanian]
Пружаны [Rus.]

Pruzhany [Eng.]
 

Pruzhany is a town, a district center in Brest region.

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