- Telekhany
Telekhany (Belorussian: "Целяханы" or Celjahany, Polish: "Telechany", Russian: "Телеханы" or "Telehany",
Yiddish : "טעלעכאן" or "Telechan", Unknown origin: "Telekhani", "Telechon", "Telekani", "Telekhan", "Tselyakhani", "Celjachani") is a town inIvatsevichy Raion of theBrest Oblast inBelarus . The name originates fromTatar language where it means "a tomb of Khan". The town has about 4,500 inhabitants. [ [http://ivacevichi.brest-region.by/content/art-635.html Ивацевичский районный исполнительный комитет ] ]Notes
External links
* [http://www.souz.co.il/clubs/read.html?article=3268&Club_ID=1 History of the town] (in Russian)
* [http://globus.tut.by/telehany/index.htm Photos on Globus.tut.by] (text in Russian)
* [http://www.radzima.org/pub/miesta.php?lang=en&miesta_id1=brivciel Photos on Radzima.org]
* [http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Telekhany/Telekhany.html Documents about Jewish inhabitants of Telekhany] (mostly English)
* [http://ajzenberg.com Genealogy of the Ajzenberg/Eisenberg/Eizenberg family of Telechan]
** [http://www.ajzenberg.com/howtel.htm "HOW DO YOU GET TO TELECHAN?" - an article by Arthur Eisenberg on his April 2001 Trip to Telechan]
** [http://www.ajzenberg.com/Book/37.htm Section of book on Telechan from AJZENBERGS OF TELECHAN by Arthur Eisenberg]
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