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Kremenets
is a city in the
Ternopil Oblast
of
western Ukraine
. It is the administrative center of the
Kremenets Raion
, and lies to the north-east of
Pochaiv Lavra
. The city is situated in the historic region of
Volhynia
and features the 12th-century
Kremenets Castle
. During the
Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'
in 1240 and 1241, Kremenets was one of few cities that
Batu Khan
failed to capture. This photograph depicts Kremenets as seen from Castle Hill, with the former buildings of the
Krzemieniec Lyceum
in the foreground.
Photograph credit:
Konstantin Brizhnichenko
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