Kamin

Kamin, now Kamin-Kashyrskyi, grew in the northern Volhynian country associated with the medieval fortress of Kamen and the settlement of Kosher. It received Magdeburg town rights in 1430, giving its urban community a recognised legal position within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

The Union of Lublin transferred Volhynia to the Polish Crown in 1569. Noble patronage subsequently added a Dominican monastery, founded by Adam Sanguszko in 1628. Thus the town's institutions included both municipal privileges and a religious foundation supported by its lord. In 1795 the Third Partition of Poland brought Kamin into the Russian Empire, placing this small Volhynian centre within another system of provincial rule.