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Khotyn Fortress
A huge medieval fortress on a bend of the Dniester, where a great battle was fought in 1621.
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- Every day
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- Khotyn Fortress, Khotyn, Chernivtsi OblastDirections
- Getting There
- About 30 minutes by car from Kamianets-Podilskyi.
Why Go
First built of wood and rebuilt in stone between the 13th and 15th centuries, the fortress guarded a crossing of the Dniester on the old border between Moldavia and Poland. Its walls stand 40 meters high in places, and in 1621 a Polish–Lithuanian and Cossack army held off a far larger Ottoman force beneath them.
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