Stolin
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Stolin (Template:Lang-be; Template:Lang-ru) is a town in the Brest Province of Belarus.
The first record about Stolin dates near 1555. Stolin grew up at the heart of the Polesia region on the river Haryń, at the crossroads of three important routes, one leading northwards to Pinsk, two others eastwards to Davyd-Haradok and Turaŭ, that are now in Belarus, southwards to Sarny and Kyiv, that are now in Ukraine.
Nowadays Stolin is the center of the largest district in Brest voblast. Population of Stolin is 12.5 thousand people (2002). The Belarusian-Ukrainian border is about 15 km away, so Stolin is now a border city that hosts a lot of Ukrainians on the market days. Russian speech is common here, but villagers prefer their dialects that are numerous and akin partly to the Belarusian language, partly the Ukrainian language.