Liuboml

Liuboml is a city in Kovel Raion, Volyn Oblast, in western Ukraine, close to the border with Poland, and it serves as the administrative center of the Liuboml urban hromada. It lies in the historic region of Volhynia, about 320 km southeast of Warsaw and 470 km west of Kyiv, and its strategic position at the crossroads of Central and Eastern Europe gave it a long history of changing rule, from Kyivan Rus' and the Kingdom of Poland to the Russian Empire, interwar Poland, the Soviet Union and finally sovereign Ukraine. The settlement was first mentioned in written documents in the 13th century, when it was a centre of the Volodymyr Principality and a favourite residence of prince Vladimir Vasilkovich. Known as Luboml in Polish and Libivne in Yiddish, it had the highest percentage of Jewish residents of any town in the Second Polish Republic before the Holocaust, and its Jewish community was annihilated in a mass shooting in 1942. Landmarks include St. George's Church and the Trinity Church, which dates back to 1412. The population was estimated at 10,295 in 2022.