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  1. Sep 3, 2024 · Kamianets-Podilskyi, an island city home to Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle, one of the most beautiful castles in Ukraine, is a place that seems like it came straight out of a fairy tale. The 11th-century castle is located on a giant rock surrounded by a 40-meter-deep Smotrych River Canyon, hence why they call it the island city, and it ...

  2. Kam’yanets-Podilskyy, city, western Ukraine, on the Smotrych River. The city is one of the largest and oldest in the Dniester River basin, dating to at least the 11th century. Lying at a superbly defensible site where the river forms a loop, it was long a frontier fortress and centre of the Podolia.

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  3. Want to feel real medieval history? Then you'd better take a weekend trip to amazing Kamianets-Podilskyi, one of the oldest cities in Ukraine.

  4. The city of Kamianets-Podilskyi (Kam'yanets'-Podil's'kyy), now in south-western Ukraine, was part of the Ukrainian SSR invaded by German forces on June 22, 1941, during the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa launched from occupied Poland.

  5. Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukrainian: Кам’янець-Подільський) is a city in Western Ukraine. Understand. [edit] This is one of the earliest towns in Ukraine, first mentioned around 1060 as a Slavic town controlled by Lithuanians, but evidence suggests that the Dacians and later the Trypillians had lived there in prehistorical times.

  6. Kamianets-Podilskyi is one of the oldest cities in Ukraine. It is the pearl of Podillia, a city that has preserved the spirit of the Middle Ages. According to archaeological sources,...

  7. Nov 28, 2018 · Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle was a crucial defensive bulwark in western Ukraine for centuries, with an unparalleled record of repelling invaders from Cossacks to Ottoman Turks to Tatars.