Terespol

Not to be confused with Tiraspol.

See also: Terespol, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Terespol
PKP Railway Station in Terespol
Coat of arms
Terespol
Coordinates: 52°5′N 23°34′E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Lublin
County	Biała Podlaska
Gmina	Terespol (urban gmina)
Government
• Mayor	Jacek Danieluk
Area
• Total	10.11 km2 (3.90 sq mi)
Population (2006)
• Total	5,969
• Density	590/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	21-550
Car plates	LBI
Website	http://www.terespol-m.netbip.pl/

Terespol [tɛˈrɛspɔl] (Ukrainian: Тереспіль Terespil) is a town in eastern Poland on the border with Belarus. It lies on the border river Bug, directly opposite the city of Brest, Belarus. It has 6,002 inhabitants (2004).

Overview

It is situated in Biała Podlaska County in Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999, before it belonged to Biała Podlaska Voivodeship between 1975 and 1998).

The town is a busy border crossing between Poland and Belarus on the European route E30 which links Berlin-Warsaw-Minsk-Moscow. Another crossing into Brest is located at Kukuryki northwest of Terespol.

Around it one can find some of the old fortifications that were once part of the Brest Fortress.

Terespol features in a novel by the Yiddish Nobel Prize-winning writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Family Moskat (1950), in which the young protagonist, Asa Heshel Bennet, comes to Warsaw from his hometown of Terespol Minor to study. It is characterized as a typical backwater, Eastern European small town.

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Poland

Twin towns - Sister cities

Terespol is twinned with:

• Brest in Belarus

Gallery

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  Train in Terespol.

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  Old communist-era passport exit stamp from Terespol into Brest.

External links

Media related to Terespol at Wikimedia Commons