Korets

Korets is a city in Rivne Oblast in Ukraine, on the Korchyk river about 66 kilometres east of the regional centre Rivne. Called Korzec in Polish, it was the administrative centre of Korets Raion until that raion was abolished in 2020, and its population was estimated at 6,914 in 2022. The town is known in sources from 1150 under the name Korchesk and was fortified by Prince Theodor Ostrogski in the late fourteenth century, when it lay within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. From the fifteenth to the seventeenth century its castle was the seat of the princely House of Korets, and afterwards it became the main seat of a junior line of the Czartoryski family. A porcelain factory founded in 1783 made Korzec ware famous across Poland. Its heritage includes the remains of the old castle, a Resurrection Monastery and the Church of St. Antony, first built in 1533.