Telekhany
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Telekhany is a town in Ivatsevichy Raion
of the Brest Oblast in Belarus
. The name originates from Tatar language
where it means "a tomb of Khan
". The town has about 4,500 inhabitants.
Ivatsevichy Raion
Ivatsevichy Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Voblast, in Belarus....
of the Brest Oblast in Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
. The name originates from Tatar language
Tatar language
The Tatar language , or more specifically Kazan Tatar, is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars of historical Kazan Khanate, including modern Tatarstan and Bashkiria...
where it means "a tomb of Khan
Khan (title)
Khan is an originally Altaic and subsequently Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler, widely used by medieval nomadic Turko-Mongol tribes living to the north of China. 'Khan' is also seen as a title in the Xianbei confederation for their chief between 283 and 289...
". The town has about 4,500 inhabitants.
External links
- History of the town (in Russian)
- Photos on Globus.tut.by (text in Russian)
- Photos on Radzima.org
- Documents about Jewish inhabitants of Telekhany (mostly English)
- Genealogy of the Ajzenberg/Eisenberg/Eizenberg family of Telechan