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Ostroh ( translit. Ostrog, , Polish: Ostróg) is a historic town in the Rivne Oblast (province) of western Ukraine, located on the Horyn River. Serving as the administrative center of the Ostrozky Raion (district), the city itself is also designated as a special administrative subordination.
The current estimated population is around 14,801 (as of 2001).

History

The Hypatian Codex first mentions Ostroh in 1100, as a fortress of the Volhynian princes. Since the 14th century, it was the seat of the powerful Ostrogski princely family, who developed their town into a great centre of learning and commerce. Upon the family's extinction in the 17th century, Ostroh passed to the princes Lubomirski. In the 16th century, first East Slavic books, notably the Ostrog Bible, were printed there. The town formerly had a sizable Jewish community, whose rabbis included Kalonymus Haberkasten, Samuel Edels, and Solomon Luria.
Landmarks include the Ostroh Castle on the Red Hill (JPEG)

, with the Epiphany church (built in the fifteenth century) and several towers. To the north-west from the castle stand two sixteenth-century towers (JPEG)

. The suburb of Mejirichi (or Miedzyrzec) contains the Trinity abbey, with a fifteenth-century cathedral and other old structures. Ostroh Academy was found in Ostroh in 1576 as the first higher educational institution in Ukraine.

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