Brest (Belarus)

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city

Brest is a city in southwestern Belarus near the Polish border, known as a major transport hub and for the historic Brest Fortress, a key World War II memorial.

Aliases (3)

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	city →
administrativeCenterOf	Brest District → Brest Region →
borderCrossingPoint	Terespol (Poland) →
borderCrossingWith	Poland →
climate	humid continental climate →
country	Belarus →
hasAirport	Brest Airport →
hasLandmark	Brest City Park of Culture and Rest → Brest Fortress → Brest Hero-Fortress Memorial Complex → Brest Millennium Monument → Brest Regional Museum of Local Lore → Catholic Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Brest) → Holy Cross Exaltation Cathedral (Brest) → Museum of the Saved Artistic Values (Brest) → Railway Museum of Brest → Sovetskaya Street (pedestrian zone) → St. Nicholas Church in Brest Fortress →
hasMemorial	World War II memorial complex at Brest Fortress →
hasRailConnectionTo	Berlin → Minsk → Moscow → Warsaw →
hasSportsTeam	FC Dynamo Brest →
hasTransport	railway junction → river port → road junction →
hasUniversity	Brest State A.S. Pushkin University → Brest State Technical University →
historicalName	Brest-Litovsk → Brest-on-the-Bug → Brześć Litewski →
historicalRegion	Polesia →
is	major transport hub →
languageUsed	Belarusian → Russian →
locatedIn	southwestern Belarus →
locatedNear	Polish border →
locatedOn	Bug River → Mukhavets River →
notableFor	defense of Brest Fortress in 1941 →
partOf	Republic of Belarus →
timezone	UTC+3 →
twinnedWith	Biała Podlaska → Brest (France) → Cheb → Lublin → Rzeszów →

Referenced by (17)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Brest (Belarus) ("Brześć Litewski") → Brest (Belarus) ("Brest-on-the-Bug") →	historicalName
Białystok ("Brest") → Lublin ("Brest") →	twinCity
Brest-Litovsk ("Brest-on-the-Bug") →	alsoKnownAs
Polesie Voivodeship ("Brest") →	capital
Lublin–Brest Offensive ("Brest") →	capturedCity
Brest-Litovsk ("Brest") →	formerNameOf
Kutaisi →	hasSisterCity
Brest blockade ("Brest") →	location
Western Belarus ("Brest") →	majorCity
Brest-Litovsk ("Brest") →	modernName
Bug River ("Brest") →	passesNear
Menachem Begin ("Brest") →	placeOfBirth
Belarusians ("Brest") →	populationCenter
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ("Brest") →	signedIn
Veendam →	twinTown