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Loyew
Loyew ( be, Ло́еў, Łojeŭ, ; pl, Łojów, russian: Лоев) or Loyev (russian: Ло́ев), ; is a town in the Belarusian province of Homiel and the administrative centre of Loyew Raion. The population is 6,698 (2018). The settlement is located along the right coast of the Dnieper River at its confluence with the Sozh. Loyew arose on the site of an ancient settlement of the Dregoviches within Principality of Chernigov. The settlement was situated on the route from the Varangians to the Greeks. The first mention of the Loyew goes back to 1505 and it was known as Loyewa Hara (Loyew Hill). The name is probably derived from the Abkhaz-Adyghe surname Loo. The town is known for the Battle of Loyew of July 31, 1649 during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. After the division of the Rzecz Pospolita in 1793, it became a part of the Russian Empire. According to the results of the census held in 1897 the town had 4,667 inhabitants, among them 2150 Jews. There were 251 farms, 9 mills, 24 sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Loyew (1649)
The Battle of Loyew ( be, Лоеў, pl, Łojów, uk, Лоєв) was a battle of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Near the site of the present-day town of Loyew in Belarus, a numerically superior force of Ukrainian Cossacks under the command of Cossack warleaders Stepan Pobodailo and Mykhailo Krychevsky was defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Field Hetman of Lithuania Janusz Radziwiłł. Radziwiłł was able to engage the Cossack forces before they merged. First, he defeated the army of Krychevsky, who was mortally wounded; then he defeated Pobodailo's army. Before the battle A Cossack army under Stepan Pobodailo ( pl, Stiepan Podobajła) with a force of about 7,000 took Loyew in summer of 1649 and began using it as an operational base in the region, from which they staged a series of pillaging raids.Łojów Rzecz-p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loyew District
Loyew District or Lójeŭski Rajon ( be, Лоеўскі раён, translit=Lojeŭski rajon; russian: Лоевский район, translit=Loyevsky rayon) is a district (''raion'') of Belarus located in the Gomel Region. Its administrative center is Loyew. History The Battle of Loyew took place in 1649 where a numerically superior force of Ukrainian Cossacks under the command of Cossack warleaders Stepan Pobodailo and Mykhailo Krychevsky was defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of hetman Janusz Radziwiłł. The district was founded on 8 December 1926. It has been a part of the Gomel Region since 1938, after administrative reforms introduced regions in Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR). The district was dissolved for several years in the 1960s, being abolished in December 1962 and reinstated in July 1966. It has been a district of Belarus since its independence from the USSR in 1991. Geography The area of the district is . F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loyew Raion
Loyew District or Lójeŭski Rajon ( be, Лоеўскі раён, translit=Lojeŭski rajon; russian: Лоевский район, translit=Loyevsky rayon) is a district (''raion'') of Belarus located in the Gomel Region. Its administrative center is Loyew. History The Battle of Loyew took place in 1649 where a numerically superior force of Ukrainian Cossacks under the command of Cossack warleaders Stepan Pobodailo and Mykhailo Krychevsky was defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of hetman Janusz Radziwiłł. The district was founded on 8 December 1926. It has been a part of the Gomel Region since 1938, after administrative reforms introduced regions in Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR). The district was dissolved for several years in the 1960s, being abolished in December 1962 and reinstated in July 1966. It has been a district of Belarus since its independence from the USSR in 1991. Geography The area of the district is . F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban-type Settlements In Belarus
According to a 1998 law of the Republic of Belarus, there are three categories of urban-type settlements in Belarus: *Urban settlements ( [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gomel Region
Gomel Region or Gomel Oblast or Homiel Voblasts ( be, Го́мельская во́бласць, Homielskaja vobłasć, russian: Гомельская область, Gomelskaya oblast) is one of the regions of Belarus. Its administrative center is Gomel. The total area of the region is , the population in 2011 stood at 1,435,000 with the number of inhabitants per km2 at 36. Important cities within the region include: Homiel, Mazyr, Zhlobin, Svietlahorsk, Rechytsa, Kalinkavichy, Rahachow and Dobrush. Both the Gomel Region and the Mogilev Region suffered severely from the Chernobyl disaster. The Gomel Province borders the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in places, and parts of it have been designated as mandatory or voluntary resettlement areas as a result of the radioactive contamination. Administrative territorial entities Gomel Region comprises 21 districts and 2 city municipalities. The districts have 278 selsovets, and 17 cities and towns. Districts of Gomel Region * Akciabrski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loeu Budynak Saveckaya , a town in the province of Homiel, Belarus
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Loeu may refer to: *Khmer Loeu, the collective name given to the indigenous ethnic groups in the highlands of Cambodia * Lynx OEU, an independent unit within the British Royal Navy's Lynx Helicopter Force See also *Loyew Loyew ( be, Ло́еў, Łojeŭ, ; pl, Łojów, russian: Лоев) or Loyev (russian: Ло́ев), ; is a town in the Belarusian province of Homiel and the administrative centre of Loyew Raion. The population is 6,698 (2018). The settlement is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
