Stolin

Stolin

Stolin ( _be. Сто́лін; _ru. Сто́лин; _pl. Stolin; _he. סטולין) is a town in the Brest Voblast of Belarus. Nowadays, Stolin is the center of the largest district in Brest voblast. The population of Stolin is 12,500 people (2002). The Belarusian-Ukrainian border is about 15 km away, so Stolin is now a border city that hosts many Ukrainians on the market days. Russian speech is common here, but villagers prefer their dialects that are numerous and akin partly to the Belarusian language, partly the Ukrainian language.

History

Stolin grew up at the heart of the Polesia region on the river Haryn, at the crossroads of two important routes, one leading northwards to Pinsk, two others eastwards to Davyd-Haradok and Turaŭ, that are now in Belarus, southwards to Sarny and Kiev, that are now in Ukraine.

Archaeological evidence suggests that the area which Stolin now occupies, was settled as far back as the 12th century AD. The first mention of Stolin dates to 1559. There are three stories regarding the origins of the name "Stolin". The first refers to a group of local fisherman who cast their fishing nets into a lake a pulled out 100 fish or Sto [100 in "Russian"] "Leeni" [a type of local fish] . The second story refers to a ferry-boat which sunk in the river and required 100 men with 100 ropes to drag it out [100 lines in "Russian"] . The third refers to twelve brothers who ruled over seven nearby cities and chose what became Stolin as their meeting place and capital city [a derivation of Stolichniy Gorod in "Russian"] .

See also

*Stolin (Hasidic dynasty)
*Pale of Settlement
*Holocaust/Shoah

External links

* [http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/shtetls/shtetl_detail.php?filename=sstolinpm Stolin (JewishGen)]
* [http://www12.virtualtourist.com/m/5a6b1/523c7/ More info and pictures of Stolin]
* [http://radzima.org/pub/miesta.php?lang=en&miesta_id1=brststol Photos on Radzima.org]
* [http://yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=2057 Stolin Yizkor Book (New York Public Library) - A Memorial to the Jewish Community of Stolin, 1952 (Hebrew)]


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