The word Kamenets (or its variants Kamenec, Kamieniec, Kamyanets or Kamianets) is a common Slavic

toponym Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of '' toponyms'' (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types. Toponym is the general term for a proper name of ...

with the root ''kamen'' meaning "stone" and the suffix '' -ets''. It usually denotes a rocky mountain or stony embankment of a river or stream. Kamenets may refer to:

Places

Belarus

Kamyenyets Kamyanyets (also spelled as Kamianiec, Kamenets, Kamieniec; be, Ка́менец , russian: Ка́менец, uk, Кам'янець, Kamianets', pl, Kamieniec, yi, קאמעניץ ''Kamenits'' (or ''Kaminetz''), lt, Kamianecas; he, קמניץ ...

Kamenets District Kamenets District ( be, Камянецкі раён, russian: Каменецкий район) is a district (raion) of Brest Region, in Belarus. Its administrative center is Kamenets. Geography In Kamenets District in few kilometers to the Sou ...

Bulgaria

* Kamenets, Kardzhali Province

Croatia

* Kamenac

Czech Republic

* Kamenec (Rokycany District) * Kamenec u Poličky

Germany

Kamenz Kamenz () or Kamjenc ( Sorbian) is a town (''Große Kreisstadt'') in the district of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany. Until 2008 it was the administrative seat of Kamenz District. The town is known as the birthplace of the philosopher and poet Gotthol ...

, Upper Sorbian ''Kamjenc'', Lower Sorbian ''Kamjeńc''

Hungary

Szombathely Szombathely (; german: Steinamanger, ; see also other alternative names) is the 10th largest city in Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Vas county in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria. Szombathely lies by t ...

, Czech and Slovak historical exonym ''Kamenec''

Ukraine

Kamianets-Podilskyi Kamianets-Podilskyi ( uk, Ка́м'яне́ць-Поді́льський, russian: Каменец-Подольский, Kamenets-Podolskiy, pl, Kamieniec Podolski, ro, Camenița, yi, קאַמענעץ־פּאָדאָלסק / קאַמעניץ, ...

, a town in western Ukraine *

Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion ( uk, Кам'янець-Подільський район, ) is one of the three administrative raions (a Raions of Ukraine, ''district'') of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine. Its Administrative centre, administ ...

, district of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast *

Kamianets Okruha Kamianets Okruha ( uk, Кам'янецька округа, ) was one of the administrative units (an ''okruha'') of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1923–1930 and again from 1935–1937. A large portion of the former okruhas territo ...

, a former administrative subdivision of the Ukrainian SSR *

Khmelnytskyi Oblast Khmelnytskyi Oblast ( uk, Хмельни́цька о́бласть, translit=Khmelnytska oblast; also referred to as Khmelnychchyna — uk, Хмельни́ччина) is an oblast (province) of western Ukraine covering portions of the histo ...

, a province in western Ukraine also known as Kamianets-Podilskyi Oblast

Slovakia

Kamenec pod Vtáčnikom Kamenec pod Vtáčnikom ( hu, Kemenec) is a village and municipality in Prievidza District in the Trenčín Region of western Slovakia. It includes the former separate villages Horny Kamenec and Dolny Kamenec. History In historical records the v ...

Malý Kamenec Malý Kamenec ( hu, Kiskövesd) is a village and municipality, in the Trebišov District, in the Košice Region of south-eastern Slovakia. History In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1358. Geography The village lies at an a ...

Veľký Kamenec Veľký Kamenec ( hu, Nagykövesd) is a village and municipality in the Trebišov District in the Košice Region of south-eastern Slovakia. History In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1280. Geography The village lies at an ...

People

Ivan Kamenec Ivan Kamenec (born 27 August 1938) is a Slovak historian. Life Kamenec was born into a Jewish family in Nitra on 27 August 1938 and grew up in . His father, a civil engineer managed to secure an economic exception to the 1942 deportations, duri ...

(born 1931), Slovak historian