Cherven
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Cherven may refer to:
- Cherven (fortress)Cherven (fortress)The stronghold of Cherven was one of the Second Bulgarian Empire's primary military, administrative, economic and cultural centres between the 12th and the 14th century...
(Червен), an important medieval fortress of the Second Bulgarian Empire - ČervieńCervienČervień or Chyervyen’ is a small town in Minsk Voblast, Belarus.In June 1941, the Soviet NKVD mass-executed prisoners from Minsk in the nearby Tsagelnya forest...
(Чэрвень), a city in Belarus sometimes transliterated as Cherven - CzerwieńCzerwieńCzerwień was a mediæval West Slavic settlement located near the site of modern Czermno near Tyszowce. In early Middle Ages the town was the administrative centre of the so-called Czerwień Towns , that is the region roughly correspondent to later Red Ruthenia. The town itself had been destroyed by a...
, a historical capital of the so-called Cherven Towns area contested between the Kingdom of Poland and Kiev Ruthenia