Volhynia
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 Lubart's Castle was the seat of the medieval princes of Volhynia. |
Volhynia, Volynia, or Volyn (, , , or Volynė, or Wolynien, ) is a historic region in Eastern Europe straddling Poland and Ukraine. It was annexed after the Second World War into the Soviet Union as Ukraine pushed its borders westwards replacing the Polish and Jewish populations, and, since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, it now forms a part of western Ukraine . It is located between the rivers Prypiat and Southern Bug, to the north of Galicia and Podolia. The region is named for the former city of Volyn or Velyn, said to have been located on the Southern Bug River, whose name may come from the Proto-Slavic root *vol/vel- 'wet.' In addition to Poles, Russians and Ukrainians, the region historically had one of the biggest Jewish populations in the world, almost all of whom were murdered in the Holocaust, or in pre-war pogroms by Ukrainian and Polish nationalists.
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- Related: Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, Galicia (Eastern Europe), Massacre of Poles in Volhynia, Polish Autonomous District
| The Journey to Trochenbrod and Lozisht aug 2006 The Journey to Trochenbrod and Lozisht aug 2006 www.tal.yesh.net - Web |
| Imperial Russian Volhynia District Map Imperial Russian Volhynia District Map www.rollintl.com/roll/volhynia.htm - Web |
| Swiss-Volhynian Mennonites Swiss-Volhynian Mennonites www.swissmennonite.org - Web |
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| Germans in Volhynia - English Germans in Volhynia - English www.sggee.org - Web |
| Germans in Volhynia - Another English site Germans in Volhynia - Another English site www.volhynia.com - Web |
| Germans in Volhynia - German Germans in Volhynia - German www.wolhynien.de - Web |
| Volhynia-Galicia Volhynia-Galicia www.volhynia-galicia.pl - Web |
