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Kovel (Ukrainian: Ковель, IPA: [ˈkɔʋelʲ] ⓘ; Polish: Kowel; Yiddish: קאוולע / קאוולי) is a city in Volyn Oblast, northwestern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Kovel Raion within the oblast.
Kovel Returns to Polish Rule. The Treaty of Riga signed March 18, 1921 ended the war. West Volhynia was returned to Poland, but the rest passed to Ukraine. The treaty was signed in on 18 March 1921, between Poland on one side and Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine on the other.
KOVEL. KOVEL, town in Volhynia district, Ukraine; within Poland until the end of the 18 th century, passed to Russia until 1918, and within Poland again until 1939. A Jewish community is known to have existed there from 1536, when Kovel received Magdeburgian rights (city rights).
Był miastem królewskim Korony Królestwa Polskiego . Położenie. Kowel położony jest na Nizinie Poleskiej, nad rzeką Turią. Historycznie miasto leży na Wołyniu, w jego zachodniej części, blisko granicy z ziemią chełmską. Otaczającymi dużymi miastami (min. 100 tys. mieszkańców) są: Rzeka Turia w Kowlu. Historia.
The late 19th and 20th century saw the growth of a vibrant Jewish community - economically, politically and intellectually - but the rapid succession of World War I, the Bolshevik-Polish war and becoming part of a reconstituted Poland, with its waves of virulent anti-Semitism, had devastating effects.
Kovel is located in the very centre of Volhynia Province, on both banks of the Turija River, a tributary of the Pripyat flowing from south to north. The first written mention of Kovel is dated to 1310. Perhaps the town owes its name to the word kowal, meaning “blacksmith” – a common trade in this area in the 10th–13th centuries.
Kovel, now part of the Ukraine, obtained its city rights in 1518 when it was part of the Duchy Of Lithuania. It became a key Jewish population center in the district of Volhynia, and over the centuries, passed variously among Poland and Russia before being occupied by the Germans in World War 2 and the Soviets after the defeat of the Nazis.
