Gomel (Belarusian and Russian: Го́мель; transliteration: Hómyel' and Gómel', respectively) is the second largest city of Belarus, with a population of 481,000 (2005 estimate) and part of the Homyel Province. Gomel is situated in the south-eastern part of the country, close to the border to Ukraine and to Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Belarusian is the language of the Belarusian nation. ... Russian (русский язык listen?) is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. ... Transliteration in a narrow sense is a mapping from one script into another script. ... Belarus (Belarusian: Белару́сь or Biełaruś, Russian: Белару́сь (formerly: Белору́ссия), Polish: Białoruś) is a landlocked nation of Eastern Europe with the capital Minsk. ... Ukraine (Україна, Ukrayina in Ukrainian; Украина in Russian) is a republic in eastern Europe which borders Russia to the east, Belarus to the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest and the Black Sea to the south. ... Chernobyl area. ...
Exact date of Gomel founding is not known. It was first mentioned in the chronicles around the first half of the 12th century. (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ...
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Photos on Radzima.org (http://radzima.org/pub/miesta.php?miesta_id1=hohohome)
Homyel (Belarusian Го́мель, transliteration: Hómiel'; Russian: Го́мель, transliteration: Gómel') is the second-largest city of Belarus and the main city of Homyel Province.
Homyel is situated in the southeastern part of the country, on the right bank of SoЕѕ river, close to the border to Ukraine and to Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
In 1854Homyel merged with the neighbouring Beliza town situated on the left bank of Sozh River, which is now is a part of Homyel city and one of its four wards.
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