Chelm

Chelm is a town in eastern Poland with 63,949 population. It is positioned to the south-east of Lublin, north of Zamosc and south of Biaa Podlaska, some 25 kilometres from the border with Ukraine. Chelm was the capital of the Chelm Voivodeship till it have become a part of the Lublin Voivodeship in 1999. The metropolis is of in most cases commercial person, even though it additionally functions numerous amazing historical monuments and visitor attractions. Chelm is a more than one bishopric. Its etymology stems from the Slavic phrase "cholm", a hill, in connection with the Wysoka Gorka gord. The first traces of settlement in the location of contemporary Chelm date lower back to as a minimum 9^th century.

The following century, a Slavic fortified town became created and initially served as a centre of pagan worship. The etymology of the name is doubtful, even though most students derive it from the Slavic noun denoting a flat hill. The town's centre is placed on a hill called gora chelmska. However, it is also theorized that the call is derived from a few Celtic root. In 981 the city, then inhabited by the Eastern Slavic tribe of Buzhans, become made part of Kievan Rus', together with the surrounding Cherven Towns. According to a neighborhood legend, Vladimir the Great built the primary stone fortress there in 1001.