The ancient city Khotyn figures prominently in medieval European history. Based near the eastern Slavs an important crossing in the Middle Dniester, it developed rapidly and become one of the important defense and commercial points of the territory. Khotyn fortress in its time was one of the strongest in Eastern Europe, under its walls repeatedly converged numerous army. Due to its strategic boundary location of a fortress for centuries it was part of various states Kievan Rus, Galicia-Volyn, the Moldavian principality, the Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Russian Empire, which largely explains its architectural style, which was formed under the influence of general European trends associated with the development of military defense architecture, but also got a kind of ethnic coloring.

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