Ukraine

Ukraine is a nation that lies in the Eastern Europe. On the east of the country there is Russia. On its west there is Hungary, Slovakia and Poland. On the south it is surrounded by the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. On its southwest it is bordered by Moldova and Romania, and on its north it is bordered by Belarus.

The largest city in Ukraine is its capital city and it is the city of Kiev. There are twenty-four provinces in Ukraine and two cities that have special status. These two cities are Sevastopol and Kiev.

There are about 46.2 million people in this country and more than 75% of these people are Ukrainians. The remaining people in Ukraine are Romanians, Russians and Belarusians.

The Official language of Ukraine is the Ukrainian language but Russian is also spoken by many people. The chief religion of this nation is the Eastern Orthodox Christianity and this religion has influenced the music, literature and architecture of the country.

Ukraine is considered to be the 44th largest country in the world with an area of about 603,700 square kilometers. Its coastline is about 2,782 square kilometers. This country ranks 8th as the most visited countries in the world by the tourists.

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    Medzhybizh Fortress

    Medzhybizh Castle, built as a bulwark against Ottoman expansion in the 1540s, became one of the strongest fortresses of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland in Podolia.

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    Mezhyrich Monastery

    Mezhyrich Monastery the complex of monastic buildings XVI-XVII century in the village Mezhyrich in Volyn.

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    National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesus, Sevastopol

    Chersonesus (also rendered as Chersonese, Chersonesos), in medieval Greek contracted to Cherson is an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2,500 years ago in the southwestern part of the Crimean Peninsula. The colony was established in the 6th century BC by settlers from Heraclea Pontica.

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    Nevytsky Castle

    Nevytsky Castle is a semi-ruined castle in Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine 12 km north of Uzhhorod. It was founded in the early 15th century.

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    Nialiab Castle (Ruins)

    Ruins of Nialiab Castle on the outskirts of Korolevo. Hungarian king Ishtvan V builds a hunting lodge on grounds of what was one an old Slavic settlement.

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    Olesko Castle

    Olesko Castle is located within the borders of the present-day Busk Raion in Ukraine. The first historical records of the castle are in a document dated 1327, when Pope Boniface IX gave Halych, a Catholic bishop, this castle as a gift.

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    Olyka Castle

    Olyka Castle, located in Olyka, Ukraine was the principal seat of the Radziwill princely family in Volhynia from 1564 until the late 18th century. The founder of the castle was Prince Mikolaj "the Black" Radziwill (1515–1565) who gave Olyka to his youngest son Stanislaw.

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    Or Qapi Fortress (Ruins), Perekop

    Or Qapi Fortress ruins near Perekop settlement located on the Perekop Isthmus connecting the Crimean peninsula to the Ukrainian mainland.

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    Ostroh Castle

    The Ostroh Castle is a castle in the city of Ostroh, located in the Rivne Oblast of western Ukraine. In the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, the castle was the key stronghold of the powerful House of Ostroh. Today it is in ruins.

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    Palanok Castle, Mukachevo

    The Palanok Castle or Mukachevo Castle is a historic castle in the city of Mukachevo in the western Ukrainian oblast (province) of Zakarpattia. The Palanok Castle is delicately preserved, and is located on a former 68 metre high volcanic hill.

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    Pidhirtsi Castle

    Pidhirtsi Castle is a residential castle-fortress located in the village of Pidhirtsi in Lviv Oblast (province) western Ukraine, located eighty kilometers east of Lviv. It was constructed by Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan between 1635–1640 by order of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's Grand Crown Hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski, on the place of the older fortress.

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    Pidzamochok Castle (Ruins)

    Pidzamochok castle is an old castle, dating near 1600, located in Pidzamochok, Buchach Raion, Ternopil oblast, Ukraine. Founder - Jan Zbozny (Tworowski-Buczacki).

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    Pniv Castle (Ruins)

    It was built in the second half of the XVI century by Kuropatovs, Polish feudalists, who received the land from King Vladislav Opilsky for for "loyalty"to the Polish Kingdom and faithful service.

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    Poloniny National Park

    Poloniny National Park is a national park in northeastern Slovakia at the Polish and Ukrainian borders, in the Bukovské vrchy mountain range, which belongs to the Eastern Carpathians. It was created on 1 October 1997 with a protected area of 298.05 km² and a buffer zone of 109.73 km². Selected areas of the park are included into Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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    Pomoriany Castle

    Pomoriany Castle is a ruined castle in the village of Pomoriany, Zolochiv District, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It originated in the 16th century as a well-fortified noble residence on the bank of the Zolota Lypa River.

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    Radomysl Castle

    Radomysl Castle is a historical and cultural complex created in 2007–2011 by Olga Bogomolets MD, a Ukrainian doctor and public activist. The castle's center is an old flour mill built in the town of Radomyshl (Zhytomyr region, Ukraine) in the late 19th century by Polish engineer Piekarski.

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    Rakovets Castle (Ruins)

    The castle was found at the beginning of the XVII by the Dominick Voycekh Benievskyi, court circle servant of Halych. Being unfinished in 1657 it already had stand a siege of the Cossack colonel A. Zhdanovych, sent by Bohdan Khmelnytskyi to help Transylvanian voevode Yurii II Rakotsa.

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    Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kyiv

    Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev is an outstanding architectural monument of Kievan Rus'. The cathedral is one of the city's best known landmarks and the first heritage site in Ukraine to be inscribed on the World Heritage List along with the Kiev Cave Monastery complex.

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    Sataniv Castle (Ruins)

    Sataniv Castle Ruins in Sataniv village in the Horodok Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine.

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    Serednie Castle (Ruins)

    A castle of the Order of Knights Templars of 12th century ХІІ in the village of Serednie in Uzhhorod district of Transcarpathian region. Now it is in a sad plight of unmanaged ruins.

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    Shenborn Castle (Palace)

    Shenborn palace was built by earl Buheym Shenborn in 1890 - 1895. Shenborn family came here to hunt and relax.

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    Skala-Podolsky Castle (Ruins)

    Skala-Podolsky Castle. The ruins of a medieval castle (build in 1331 year) on a high cliff on the right bank Zbruch.

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    Skalat Castle

    Skalat Castle was founded by Krzysztof Wichrowski in 1630. Towers are fully preserved, walls and underground partially, looks quite picturesque.