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Belz
Belz is a small town in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine, near the Polish border. In the Middle Ages it was one of the Cherven towns disputed between Poland and Rus', the seat of a principality and from 1462 the capital of the Polish Belz Voivodeship. From the early 19th century it was the home of the Belz Hasidic dynasty, and its large Jewish community was destroyed in the Holocaust.
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