Kamenets
The word Kamenets (or its variants Kamenec, Kamieniec, Kamyanets or Kamianets) is a common Slavic toponym with the root kamen meaning "stone" and the suffix -ets. It is usually denoting a place founded on a rocky mountain or stony embankment of a river or stream.
It may refer to:
Belarus
- Kamyanyets, Belarus
Bulgaria
- Kamenets, Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Germany
- Kamenz, Upper Sorbian Kamjenc, Lower Sorbian Kamjeńc
Hungary
- Szombathely, Czech and Slovak historical exonym Kamenec
Ukraine
- Kamianets-Podilskyi, a town in western Ukraine
- Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion, district of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast
- Kamianets Okruha, a former administrative subdivision of the Ukrainian SSR
- Khmelnytskyi Oblast, a province in western Ukraine also known as Kamianets-Podilskyi Oblast
Slovakia
See also
- Kamenitsa (disambiguation)
- Kamieniec (disambiguation), places in Poland
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