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Encyclopedia > Homyel Province
Homyel voblast on Belarus map

Homyel Province (Gomel Province) is a province (voblast) of Belarus with a center in Homyel'. Province is a name for a secondary, or subnational entity of government in most countries. ... At the higher administrative level, Belarus is divided into 6 voblasts and one municipality (horad, i. ... Belarus (Belarusian: Белару́сь or Biełaruś, Russian: Белару́сь (formerly: Белору́ссия), Polish: Białoruś) is a landlocked nation of Eastern Europe with the capital Minsk. ... 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. ...


This and Mahilyow Province severely suffered after the Chornobyl nuclear reactor catastrophe. Chernobyl area. ... Nuclear power station at Leibstadt, Switzerland. ...


Cities and towns

Categories: Belarus-related stubs | Towns in Belarus ... Svetlahorsk (Belarusian: Сьветлаго́рск; Russian: Светлого́рск, also transliterated as Svetlogorsk) is a city in Homyel voblast, Belarus. ... Zhlobin (Belarusian: Жло́бін; Russian: Жло́бин) is a city in the Homel voblast of Belarus, on the Dnepr river. ...

External link

  • Homyel Regional Executive Committee (http://www.gomel-region.gov.by/index.php?lang=txt_eng)

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Homyel (136 words)
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 1854 Homyel 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.
Homyel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (284 words)
Homyel (Belarusian and Russian: Гомель, Russian BGN/PCGN: Gomel’), also known as Homel or Gomel, is the second-largest city of Belarus and the main city of Homiel Province.
In 1854 Homyel merged with the neighbouring Bielica town situated on the left bank of Sozh River, which is now is a part of Homyel city and one of its four boroughs.
Some Jewish residents escaped in the early months of the war but those who remained were later confined to ghettos and eventually executed by the Nazis, suffering the fate of millions of Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
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