Korez

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Korez
Корець
Korez coat of arms
Korez (Ukraine)
Korez
Korez
Basic data
Oblast : Rivne Oblast
Rajon : Korets district
Height : 220 m
Area : 6.47 km²
Residents : 7,428 (January 1, 2011)
Population density : 1,148 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 34700
Area code : +380 3651
Geographic location : 50 ° 37 '  N , 27 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '9 "  N , 27 ° 9' 29"  E
KOATUU : 5623010100
Administrative structure : 1 city
Mayor : Ljudmyla Dmytruk
Address: вул. Київська 69
35700 м. Корець
Statistical information
Korets (Rivne Oblast)
Korez
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Koretz (Ukrainian Корець ; Russian Корец , Polish Korzec ) is a small Ukrainian city in the Rivne Oblast on the river Kortschyk about 64 kilometers east of the Oblasthauptstadt Rivne . It is just before the border with Zhytomyr Oblast , the next largest cities are Rivne and Novohrad-Wolynskyj .

Church of St. Antonia in Korez

history

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1150 and was in the Volyn Voivodeship until the Second Partition of Poland in 1793 . Then it came to Russia and was in the Volhynia Governorate until 1918 . Between 1920 and 1939, Korez was a border town between Poland and the Soviet Union under the Polish name of Korzec . After the occupation by the Soviet Union in 1939, the town was granted city status in 1940; after the occupation by Germany in World War II , the town came back to the Soviet Union and has been in what is now Ukraine since 1991.

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