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Brest, France Brest (; ) is a port, port city in the Finistère department, Brittany (administrative region), Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of a peninsula and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an impor ...

Brest, Belarus Brest, formerly Brest-Litovsk and Brest-on-the-Bug, is a city in south-western Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the Polish town of Terespol, where the Bug (river), Bug and Mukhavets rivers meet, making it a border town. It serves as ...

Brest may also refer to:

Places

Historical places

* Beresteishchyna *

Brest Litovsk Voivodeship Brest Litovsk Voivodeship (; ) was a unit of administrative territorial division and a seat of local government (voivode) in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) from 1566 until the May Constitution in 1791, and from ...

* Brest ghetto

Belarus

* Brest Region * Brest Airport *

Brest-Tsentralny railway station Brest-Tsentralny is the main railway station of Brest, Belarus. History The first building of the Brest station was built in 1886, and opened on 28 May in the presence of Emperor Alexander III. It was built in the form of "medieval castle" with ...

Brest Fortress Brest Fortress (; ; ; ), formerly known as Brest-Litovsk Fortress, is a 19th-century fortress in Brest, Belarus. In 1965, the title Hero Fortress was given to the fortress to commemorate the defence of the frontier stronghold during the fi ...

* Brest FEZ

North Macedonia

Brest, Čučer-Sandevo Brest (, ) is a village in the municipality of Čučer-Sandevo, Republic of North Macedonia. Demographics As of the 2021 census, Brest had 278 residents with the following ethnic composition: *Albanians 230 *Persons for whom data are taken from ...

, North Macedonia * Brest, Makedonski Brod, North Macedonia *Brest,

Štip Municipality Štip ( ) is a municipality in eastern North Macedonia. '' Štip'' is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. This municipality is part of the Eastern Statistical Region. Geography Štip Municipality covers an area of 583.2 ...

, North Macedonia

France

Arrondissement of Brest The arrondissement of Brest is an arrondissement of France in the Finistère department in the Brittany region. It has 77 communes. Its population is 381,226 (2021), and its area is . Composition The communes of the arrondissement of Brest, an ...

Brest Bretagne Airport Brest Bretagne Airport () , formerly known as Brest Guipavas Airport, is an international airport serving Brest, France. It is located in the '' commune'' of Guipavas and 10.2 km (6.4 miles) northeast of Brest, within the ''département'' ...

Château de Brest The Château de Brest (, ) or Castle of Brest is a castle in Brest, Finistère, Brittany, France. The oldest monument in the town, it is located at the mouth of the river Penfeld at the heart of the roadstead of Brest, one of the largest road ...

Brest Arena Brest Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Brest, France. Its tenant is Brest Bretagne Handball. Inaugurated on September 13, 2014, it is designed to host major sporting competitions, team training sessions and large-scale concerts. It was designe ...

Other countries

Brest, Kyustendil Province Brest () is a village in Treklyano Municipality, Kyustendil Province, south-western Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly ...

, Bulgaria * Brest, Croatia * Břest, Czech Republic *

Brest, Germany Brest () is a municipality in the district of Stade, Lower Saxony, northern Germany. It belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. In 1648 the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the Duchy of Bremen, which was first ruled in personal ...

Brześć Kujawski Brześć Kujawski (Polish pronunciation: ; ) is a town in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in central Poland. Once a royal seat of Kuyavia, the town has been the seat of one of two small duchy, duchies into which Kuyavia had been temporarily di ...

( Kuyavian Brest), Poland **

Duchy of Brześć Kujawski The Duchy of Brześć Kujawski, also known as the Duchy of Kuyavian Brest, was a district principality in the Central Europe, in the region of Kuyavia. Its capital was Brześć Kujawski. It was formed on 3 January 1268 in the partition of the D ...

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Duchy of Kuyavian Brest A duchy, also called a dukedom, is a country, territory, fief, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess, a ruler hierarchically second to the king or queen in Western European tradition. There once existed an important difference between "sovereign ...

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Brest (Merošina) Brest is a village situated in Merošina municipality in Serbia. References

Populated places in Nišava District {{NišavaRS-geo-stub ...

, Serbia *

Brest, Ig Brest (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 114–115.) is a village in the Municipality of Ig in central Slovenia, just south of the ...

, Slovenia * Brest, Michigan, United States, a former community

History

Yaroslav the Wise's attack on Brest Yaroslav the Wise's attack on Brest ''(pl: Atak Jarosława Mądrego na Brześć)'' was a campaign in 1022 by Grand Prince of Kiev Yaroslav the Wise leading the Kievan Rus' against Civitas Schinesghe led by Bolesław I the Brave, Duke of Poland ...

, 1022 *

Union of Brest The Union of Brest took place in 1595–1596 and represented an agreement by Eastern Orthodox Churches in the Ruthenian portions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to accept the Pope's authority while maintaining Eastern Orthodox liturgical ...

, 1595 *

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Ukraine–Central Powers) The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, also known as the Bread Peace () or Peace of Brest (, "Brest, Belarus, Berestian :wikt:мир#Ukrainian, Peace"), was signed on 9 February 1918 between the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) and the Central Powers ( ...

, 9 February 1918 *

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria), by which Russia withdrew from World War I. The treaty, whi ...

, 3 March 1918 *

Brest elections Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 16 November 1930, with Senate of the Republic of Poland, Senate elections held a week later on 23 November.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1491 In wha ...

, 1930 *

Brest trials The Brest trials () were among the most famous trials conducted under the Second Polish Republic. Lasting from 26 October 1931 to 13 January 1932, they were held at the Warsaw Regional Court where leaders of the '' Centrolew'', a "Center-Left" ant ...

, 1931-1922 * Battle of Brest-Litovsk, September 1939 *

Defense of Brest Fortress The defense of Brest Fortress was the first battle of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union launched on 22 June 1941. The German Army attacked without warning, expecting to take Brest on the first day, using only infantry ...

, 22–29 June 1941 * Lublin–Brest offensive, 1944

Other uses

* Brest (surname), including a list of people with the name * 3232 Brest, an asteroid *

Brest Bible The Brest Bible () was the first complete Protestant Bible translation into Polish, published by Bernard Wojewodka in 1563 in Brest and dedicated to King Sigismund II Augustus. Polish full original title: ''Biblia święta, Tho iest, Księgi ...

, first complete Protestant Bible translation into Polish * BREST (reactor), a Russian nuclear reactor *

Stade Brestois 29 Stade Brestois 29, commonly known as Stade Brestois or simply Brest,''Stade Brest'', used by some English-speaking media outlets and journalists, is not a grammatically correct name for the club. is a French professional football club based in ...

, a French football club, located in Brest.