Population - 3192 people Different buildings - 21 Wooden buildings- 602 Cloisters - 7 Temples - 7 The Northern war of Rzecz Pospolita and Russia against Sweden hampered the city development (1700-1721). Foodstuffs storehouses for the provision of the Russian army were organised in Brest-Litovsk. Later on the Swedes were occupying the city during several years. The city was getting poor and losing its past importance. Only due to the activity of the district and province administrative...

Population - 2 thousand inhabitants In the 14th century the city was alternately controlled by Lithuanian prince Gedemin and Volyn prince Andrei Yuryevich, Polish king Kazimierz III the Great and Lithuanian prince Keystut. In 1379 Berestye was robbed and destroyed by the Teutonic knights, but the castle proved to be inaccessible to the crusaders. After a short time the city regenerated, brisk trade was flourishing, rich fairs were being organised, and the first bazaar was built....

By the order of the Great Duke of Volyn Vladimir Vasilkovich, who was in control of Berestye territories, during the period from 1276 to 1288, bar-brick and stone tower was constructed in Berestye as well as in Kamenets. Information about it was preserved in Ipatyevsky Chronicles. Donjon in Berestye (height 20 m, wall thickness 1.3 m) and Kamenets Tower could resist stone machine attacks. For more than five centuries Berestye Tower served as defence and control centre until it was taken down...

Situated on a cape formed by the right bank of the Zapadnyi Bug River and the left arm of the Mukhavets River, on the crossroads of important commercial ways through the lands of the Eastern Slavs to Poland, the Baltic countries and Europe, the city was more than once subject to claims and a cause of internecine struggle. The favourable geographic situation of ancient Berestye allowed it to control the water ways on the Mukhavets River and the Zapadnyi Bug River from the south to the...