Berdychiv

Berdychiv (; Polish language: Berdycz?w; , Berdichev) is a town in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine, 44 km south of Zhytomyr. Pop. about 88,000 (data 2001).

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In 1430, Great Knight of Lithuania Vitautas (??????? ????? ????????? ??????) granted the rights over the area to Kalinik, the procurator (?????????) of Putivl and Zvenigorod, and it is believed that his servant named Berdich founded a khutor (remote settlement) there, however the etymology of the name Berdychiv is not known.

Polish language: Polish (polski, j?zyk polski, polszczyzna) is the official language of Poland. Polish is the main representative of the Lechitic branch of the Western Slavic languages. It originated in the areas of present-day Poland from several local Western Slavic dialects, most notably those spoken in Greater P...

Zhytomyr Oblast: Zhytomyr Oblast (??????????? ???????, Zhytomyrs?ka oblast? or ???????????, Zhytomyrshchyna in Ukrainian) is an oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. Its capital is Zhytomyr. Historically, the province is a part of Ukrainian Polissya....

Zhytomyr: Zhytomyr (Ukrainian, Russian ???????, Polish: ?ytomierz) is the capital of the Zhytomyrs'ka oblast' in Ukraine. Geographical location . It has about 271,200 inhabitants (2004), and occupies an area of 65 km?....