Brest, Belaroushie

Brest (Belaroushie: Брэст; Roushie: Брест‎; see also alternative names), an' a' Brest-on-the-Bug ("Brześć nad Bugiem" in Pols) an Brest-Litovsk ("Brześć Litewski" in Pols), is a ceety (population 310,800 in 2010) in Belaroushie at the border wi Poland opposite the ceety o Terespol, whaur the Wastren Bug an Mukhavets rivers meet. It is the caipital ceety o the Brest Voblast.

Being situatit on the main railway line connectin Berlin an Moscow, an a intercontinental hieway (the European route E30), Brest became a principal border crossin since Warld War II in Soviet times. Today it links the European Union an the Commonweel o Independent States.

Acause o the break-o-gauge at Brest, where the Roushie broad gauge meets the European staundart gauge, aw passenger trains, comin frae Poland, must hae their bogies replaced here, tae travel on athort Belaroushie, an the freight must be transloaded frae caurs o ane gauge tae caurs o anither. Some o the land in the Brest rail yards remains contaminatit as a result o the transshipment o radioactive materials here since Soviet days although cleanup operations hae been takin place.

Table o contents

1 Ceety name
2 Coat of arms
3 Internaitional relations
- 3.1 Twin touns — Sister ceeties
4 References

[edit] Ceety name

There are several theories o the ceety name oreegin. The maist common are as follaes,

the name o the ceety comes frae the Slavic root beresta meanin birch, bark,
the name o the ceety comes frae the Slavic root berest meanin elm,
the name o the ceety comes frae the Lithuanian wird brasta meanin ford.^[1]

Once a center of Jewish scholarship, the city's name in Yiddish, is בריסק ("Brisk"), hence the term "Brisker" used to describe followers of the influential Soloveitchik family of rabbis.