Kamyanyets (also spelled as Kamenets and Kamjanec) (Belarusian: Камяне́ц [kamʲaˈnʲets], Russian: Ка́менец, Polish: Kamieniec) is a town in the Brest Voblast of Belarus and the center of the Kamyanetski Rajon. The town is located in the northwestern corner of Brest voblast on the Liasnaja river, about 40 km north from Brest. In 2002, the population was about 9,000 people. Through Kamyanyets flows the river of Leśna Prawa.
It was first mentioned in the Halych-Volhynian Chronicle in 1276, when a castle with a keep, the tower of Kamyanyets, was being constructed on this spot, to protect the northern boundary of Volhynia from the raids of invaders. This site on the stony steep bank of the Liasnaja (Lysna or Leśna) River had attracted Oleksa, the prominent builder and architect of Volhynia. He showed the site to Vladimir Vasilkovich, the prince of Volhynia, who appreciated the place and ordered Oleksa to build a castle with a keep on the spot. Later a town appeared around the fortification. The tower is often called Bielaja Vieža (alternative transliteration: Belaya Vezha), which means White Tower or White Fortress in Belarusian, because after its foundation it was tiled in white. The neighboring relict forest of Belavezhskaya Pushcha received its name of White Tower. However, at our time the color of the castle is brick-red through the ages, not white.
Kamyanyets (also spelled as Kamenets and Kamjanec) (Belarusian: Камяне́ц [kamʲaˈnʲets], Russian: Ка́менец, Polish: Kamieniec) is a town in the Brest Voblast of Belarus and the center of the Kamyanetski Rajon. The town is located in the northwestern corner of Brest voblast on the Liasnaja river, about 40 km north from Brest. In 2002, the population was about 9,000 people. Through Kamyanyets flows the river of Leśna Prawa.
It was first mentioned in the Halych-Volhynian Chronicle in 1276, when a castle with a keep, the tower of Kamyanyets, was being constructed on this spot, to protect the northern boundary of Volhynia from the raids of invaders. This site on the stony steep bank of the Liasnaja (Lysna or Leśna) River had attracted Oleksa, the prominent builder and architect of Volhynia. He showed the site to Vladimir Vasilkovich, the prince of Volhynia, who appreciated the place and ordered Oleksa to build a castle with a keep on the spot. Later a town appeared around the fortification. The tower is often called Bielaja Vieža (alternative transliteration: Belaya Vezha), which means White Tower or White Fortress in Belarusian, because after its foundation it was tiled in white. The neighboring relict forest of Belavezhskaya Pushcha received its name of White Tower. However, at our time the color of the castle is brick-red through the ages, not white.