Vysokaye

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Vysokaye
Высокае

Seal

Vysokaye

Coordinates: 52°22′7″N 23°22′50″E / 52.36861°N 23.38056°E

Country

Belarus

Voblast

Brest Voblast

Raion

Kamenets Raion

Mentioned

14th century

Population (2006)

• Total

5,200

Time zone

EET (UTC+2)

• Summer (DST)

EEST (UTC+3)

Postal code

225217

Area code(s)

+375 1643

License plate

Vysokaye (Belarusian: Высокае; Ukrainian: Високе, Vysoke; Polish: Wysokie, Wysokie Litewskie; Russian: Высокое) is a town in Brest Voblast, Belarus. Few kilometers to the South-West from Vysokaye town on the Bug River the western extreme point of Belarus is situated.^[1]

It is at an altitude of 524 feet. The approximate population for a 7 kilometer area from this point is 2300 people. There is a conflicting report that in 1991 the population was 5000 people. This city has a railway station on the Brest line.

Vysokaye means "high" (same as Polish: Wysokie), as in Wysokie Litewskie (Lithuanian Heights).

There are various spellings of this Shtetl to include, but not be limited to: Hyssoke, Litowan, Litowsvan, Vishuker, Visoke DeLita, Visoko Sitoromos, Visoky Litovsk, Vosokie Litew, Vysokaje, Vysoke DeLita, Vysoke Litevske, Vysoko Litevks, Vysoko Litovsk, Vysokoe, Vysokoye, Wishko, Wisoke Litovsk, Wisoki, Wisoki Dalita, Wisokie Litofsk, Wisokie Litovsk, Wisoko Litowsk, Wissokie, Wysoke Litewski, Wysoki Litewskie, Wysokie Litewskie, Wysokie Litowski, Wysoky.

References

↑ "Main Geographic Characteristics of the Republic of Belarus". Land of Ancestors. The Scientific and Production State Republican Unitary Enterprise “National Cadastre Agency” of the State Property Committee of the Republic of Belarus. 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2013.

Staff (1978). Encyclopaedia Judaica, "Vysokoye". Keter Pub. House. p. 233.
Room, Adrian (1979). Place-Name Changes Since 1900: a world gazetteer. Scarecrow Press. p. 176.

External links

(Polish) Wysokie Litewskie in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (1895)

v t e Subdivisions of Brest Region, Belarus

Districts (raiony)	Baranavichy Byaroza Brest Drahichyn Hantsavichy Ivanava Ivatsevichy Kamyanyets Kobryn Lyakhavichy Luninets Malaryta Pinsk Pruzhany Stolin Zhabinka

Cities	Belaazyorsk Brest Baranovichi Byaroza Davyd-Haradok Drahichyn Kamyanyets Kobryn Ivatsevichy Kosava Luninets Ivanava Hantsavichy Lyahavichy Malaryta Mikashevichy Pinsk Pruzhany Stolin Vysokaye Zhabinka

Coordinates: 52°22′7″N 23°22′50″E / 52.36861°N 23.38056°E / 52.36861; 23.38056

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