Lukoml

Lukoml (Belarusian: Лукомль, Polish: Łukoml) is a village in Lukoml selsoviet, Chashniki District, Vitsebsk Voblast, Belarus, by the Lukoml Lake.

History[]

Early references to Lukoml in Russian chronicles are dated by 1078, when it was burned by Vladimir Monomakh. In 15-16th centuries it constituted a separate principality. In 1563 it was burned by Russians. In late Russian Empire it was a shtetl of about 1,000 inhabitants with one Orthodox church, one Catholic church, two synagogues, one school and 8 shops. There are remnants of ancient fortifications by the village.^[1]

References[]

^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906. Missing or empty |title= (help) — "Lukoml"^{[permanent dead link]}

Coordinates: 54°43′N 29°09′E / 54.717°N 29.150°E / 54.717; 29.150

[1] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906. Missing or empty |title= (help) — "Lukoml"^{[permanent dead link]}

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