Drahichyn ( Belarusian: Драгічын, uk, Дорогичин, russian: Дрогичин, pl, Drohiczyn, yi, דראהיטשין ''Drohichin'', lt, Drohičinas) is a city in the

Brest Region Brest Region or Brest Oblast or Brest Voblasts ( be, Брэ́сцкая во́бласць ''(Bresckaja vobłasć)''; russian: Бре́стская о́бласть (''Brestskaya Oblast)'') is one of the regions of Belarus. Its administrative cen ...

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by ...

. It the administrative center of the

Drahichyn District Drahichyn District is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Region, in Belarus. Its administrative center is Drahichyn. Demographics At the time of the Belarus Census (2009), Drahichyn Raion had a population of 42,948. Of these, 95.1% ...

. The Treaty of Drahichyn between the city of

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and the

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Crown of the Kingdom of ...

was signed in Drahichyn in 1518. The American actor

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descends from ancestors from Drahichyn.

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* Cities in Belarus Populated places in Brest Region Drahichyn District Brest Litovsk Voivodeship Kobrinsky Uyezd Polesie Voivodeship {{Belarus-geo-stub