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Chełm (Polish: ⓘ; Ukrainian: Холм, romanized: Kholm; German: Cholm; Yiddish: כעלם, romanized: Khelm) is a city in southeastern Poland with 60,231 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is located to the south-east of Lublin, north of Zamość and south of Biała Podlaska, some 25 kilometres (16 miles) from the border with Ukraine.
Achievements. References. External links. Chełmianka Chełm is a Polish football club from Chełm, Lublin Voivodeship. The club has traditional colors of Chełm Land white and green. History. The club was founded in 1955 through the merger of several smaller football clubs operating in Chełm.
- 20 August 1955; 67 years ago
- Chełmian Hussars (Chełmska Husaria)
- Chełmski Klub Sportowy Chełmianka Chełm
Chełm (Ukrainian: Холм, Kholm) is a Baroque town in Lubelskie, Poland. It lies on the main Warsaw - Kyiv road and rail routes, where it is the nearest sizeable Polish town to the Ukrainian border. The border towns are Dorohusk in Poland and Yahodin (or sometimes Yagodin) in Ukraine .
The Wise Men of Chelm ( Yiddish: Khelemer khakhomim) are dumb Jewish residents of the Polish city of Chełm, a butt of Jewish jokes, similar to other towns of fools: the English Wise Men of Gotham, German Schildbürger, Greek residents of Abdera, or Finnish residents of the fictional town of Hymylä.
Mar 23, 2022 · Yes, there is a place called Chełm—located, Wikipedia tells us, “in southeastern Poland . . . some 25 kilometers from the border with Ukraine” and home to 63,949 inhabitants, who pronounce its name “Khewm.” (Yiddish speakers said “Khelem” or “Kheylem,” as do knowledgeable Jews today.)
Chełm Land (ziemia chełmska) and other historical lands of Poland against the background of modern administrative borders. Chełm Land was a region of the Kingdom of Poland and later of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795). Today, the region is situated in the modern states of Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus.
