Liubar

Liubar stands on the Sluch in southeastern Volhynia. Its site has been proposed as that of the medieval town of Bolokhov, whose surrounding lands suffered in the wars of the thirteenth century. A later fortress is associated with the Lithuanian prince Liubart. Under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth the town belonged to powerful magnates; Stanisław Lubomirski founded a Dominican church in 1630. In 1660 Polish-Tatar and Muscovite-Cossack armies fought near Liubar, and in 1793 it passed to Russia.