Czerwień was a West Slavic settlement near the site of modern Czermno near

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. In early Middle Ages, the town was the administrative centre of the so-called Czerwień Towns, that is the region roughly correspondent to later

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. The town itself had been destroyed by a Tartar raid around 1289, never to be rebuilt. Its role as the local administrative centre was taken over by the town of

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Czerwień Land

In addition to being the name of an ancient city, long since destroyed, Land of Czerwień () was the name of a region in the southeast of Poland. See

. Most of the Land of Czerwień was seized by the

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, first in September 1939 during the

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. Then at the end of World War II, Czerwień became one of the territories annexed by the Soviet Union. The main cities in Czerwień Land, taken into the USSR and now in Ukraine are

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, Kołomyja, Kowel, Łuck, Równe, Sokal, Stryj, Tarnopol, etc. Only a small part of the original Czerwień territory remains in present-day Poland. In World War II, one of the squadrons of the Polish Air Force in exile was named No. 309 (Land of Czerwień) Squadron. Razed cities Populated places disestablished in the 13th century 1289 disestablishments in Europe 13th-century disestablishments in Poland {{Poland-geo-stub