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73,046. Website. berdychiv .com .ua. Berdychiv ( Ukrainian: Берди́чів, IPA: [berˈdɪt͡ʃ⁽ʲ⁾iu̯] ⓘ) is a historic city in Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Berdychiv Raion within the oblast. It is 44 km (27 mi) south of the administrative center of the oblast, Zhytomyr.
Berdychiv, city, northwestern Ukraine. Founded in 1482 as a Lithuanian fortress, Berdychiv was Polish from 1569 until 1793. The 16th-century fortress walls survive, as does the Roman Catholic church in which the French novelist Honoré de Balzac married Eveline Hanska, a wealthy Polish widow, in 1850 after an 18-year courtship.
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Berdychiv ( Ukrainian: Бердичів, Polish: Berdyczów, Yiddish: באַרדיטשעװ, romanized: Barditshev, Russian: Берди́чев, romanized: Berdichev) is a city in the Zhytomyr Oblast ( province) of northern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Berdychiv Raion ( district ). [1]
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The impressive brick-walled complex hogging the horizon as you approach Berdychiv from Khmelnytsky is widely known as the fortetsya (fortress), but it's actually a Carmelite (Roman Catholic) monastery. The towering Church of Our Lady, which lords over the complex, dates to the 17th century.
Berdychiv[Бердичів]. Map: IV-9. A city (2012 pop 78,547) on the Hnylopiat River, a tributary of the Teteriv River, in the northwest part of the Dnipro Upland; a raion center in Zhytomyr oblast. Berdychiv was first mentioned in a historical document of 1545.
A city on the Hnylopiat’ River (Dnieper basin), Berdychiv (Yid., Barditshev; Rus., Berdichev; Pol., Berdyczów) is the district center of Ukraine ’s Zhytomyr oblast. From 1569 it belonged to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; from 1793 the town was in the Volhynia province of the Russian Empire and from 1844 in Kiev province (district ...
Berdychiv. Show on map. Strolling through the quite provincial town Berdychiv, it is hard to believe that it used to be a large cultural and economic center. A long time ago, it was called the 'town-fortress' and 'Volyn's Jerusalem.’.