Kremenets

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Kremenets is a historic town in western Ukraine known for its rich cultural heritage and once-significant Jewish community.

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Kremenets canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historic town
town
areaCode +380 3546
coordinateLocation 50.1000°N 25.7167°E
country Ukraine
economyType local services and small-scale industry
elevation about 305 metres
hasCulturalInstitution local history museum
theater and cultural center
hasEducationalInstitution Kremenets Regional Humanitarian-Pedagogical Academy
hasHeritage rich cultural heritage
significant Jewish heritage
hasHistoricalCommunity Jewish community
hasLandmark Church of the Transfiguration in Kremenets
Jesuit College of Kremenets
Kremenets Botanical Garden
Kremenets Castle ruins
Kremenets Lyceum buildings
Monastery of the Discalced Carmelites in Kremenets
Taras Shevchenko Park in Kremenets
hasNotableFeature Jewish cemetery
historic town center
old synagogues sites
picturesque hills
hasPopulation around 20,000 inhabitants
historicalEvent Holocaust-era destruction of much of its Jewish community
World War II occupations
historicalLanguageUsed Polish
Yiddish
languageUsed Russian
Ukrainian
locatedIn Ternopil Oblast NERFINISHED
Western Ukraine
surface form: western Ukraine
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Kremenets Raion
locatedOn Ikva River NERFINISHED
partOf Volhynia
postalCode 47000
timeZone Eastern European Time
timeZoneDST Eastern European Summer Time
tourismType eco-tourism in surrounding hills
heritage tourism
religious tourism
wasPartOf Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ONNED1
Russian Empire
Second Polish Republic
Soviet Ukraine
surface form: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

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Isaac Stern placeOfBirth Kremenets
Ternopil Oblast contains Kremenets
Juliusz Słowacki placeOfBirth Kremenets