Kovel
City in Ukraine
Kovel is a city in Ukraine, the administrative center of the Kovel urban hromada and Kovel Raion of Volyn Oblast. Its area is 47.3 km², and its population (as of early 2022) is 67,575 people. The city is located on the Polissia Lowland, which belongs to the East European Plain. The state border of Ukraine runs 60-70 km from Kovel: to the north with Belarus, to the west with Poland.
1518
First mention of the city and its receipt of Magdeburg rights
1795
Kovel became part of the Russian Empire as part of the third partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
1852
The city's coat of arms was approved
1921-1939
Kovel came under Polish rule after the collapse of the Russian Empire and the defeat of the Ukrainian people's national liberation struggle
1941-1944
Occupation of Kovel by Nazi Germany and its allies
