The Union of Brest took place in 1595-1596 and represented an agreement by Eastern Orthodox Churches in the Ruthenian portions of the Polish–Lithuanian...

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Furthermore, the Brest Fortress was recognized by the Soviet Union as a Hero Fortress in honour of the defense of Brest Fortress...

Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union awarded to twelve Soviet cities. The Brest fortress has sustained its original outline of a star shaped...

terms of the Union of Brest, the Ruthenian church was transferred from the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople...

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary,...

held by the troops of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on September 22, 1939, during the invasion of Poland in the city of Brest-Litovsk (Polish: Brześć...

The defense of Brest Fortress was the first battle of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union launched on 22 June 1941. The German...

Russia) in 1299 after the devastation of Kiev by the Golden Horde and then in Moscow in 1325. In 1596, the Union of Brest was adopted in which the church's...

reason for large numbers of Ukrainians to emigrate to Tsardom of Russia following the Union. The eastward spread of the Union of Brest led to violent clashes...

Dynamo Brest (Belarusian: ФК Дынама Брэст, FK Dynama Brest; Russian: ФК Динамо Брест) is a Belarusian professional football club based in Brest. The club...

Brest Bretagne Airport (French: Aéroport de Brest Bretagne) (IATA: BES, ICAO: LFRB), formerly known as Brest Guipavas Airport, is an international airport...

united with Catholic church by the Union of Uzhhorod, similar to the Union of Brest. Up until World War II and the Holocaust, Mukachevo was primarily a...

by the 1439 Council of Florence, by signing the 1596 Union of Brest. Archeparch Josaphat remains one of the best-known victims of anti-Catholic violence...

Tomos on Autocephaly. In 1596, the Union of Brest was adopted which transferred the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the metropolis from the Ecumenical...

treaty of the Union of Brest, Rome recognized the Ruthenians' continued practice of Byzantine liturgical tradition, married clergy, and consecration of bishops...

A strong supporter of the Union of the church since his appointment as bishop, on 19 October 1596 Gogol joined the Union of Brest, becoming a Greek-Catholic...

attempt to settle the issue was made in the religious Union of Brest. On the military front, a series of Cossack uprisings took place. The Commonwealth, assertive...

Polish Orthodox Church. He was killed by Catholics for opposition to the Union of Brest. Athanasius is commemorated on September 5 by the Eastern Orthodox Church...

undersigned in Brest on 12 June 1595. This Union of Brest, as it became known, was formally proclaimed 8 October 1596. While Rohoza signed the union, he later...

within East-Central Europe was started with the 1598–1599 Union of Brest, by which the "Metropolia of Kiev-Halych and all Rus'" entered into relationship with...

those of the 1596 Union of Brest from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. As outlined initially, the Union only concerned the manorial estates of the Drugeth...

The 1596 Brest Church Union (БЕРЕСТЕЙСЬКА ЦЕРКОВНА УНІЯ 1596). Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. Church Union of Berestia. Encyclopedia of Ukraine Pelesz...

being uncanonical in both Catholic and Orthodox understanding, the Union of Brest was annulled, and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was officially...

in the religious Union of Brest, which split the Eastern Christians of the Commonwealth, and on the military front, in a series of Cossack uprisings...

governed by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in Kievan Rus'. Following the Council of Florence and the Union of Brest, there are now parallel apostolic...

Following the fall of Constantinople, the Union of Florence fell into abeyance. Metropolitans of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' of the Union of Brest: Mykhailo (1596–1599)...

he opposed the Union of Brest and attempted to protect the Eastern Orthodox minority in the east from Polonization. His initiative of printing the Stanisław...

Christians into the See of Rome. The Belarusian church entered into a full communion with the Latin Church through the Union of Brest in 1595, while keeping...

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1595/96 following the Union of Brest. It was effectively disestablished by the partitions of Poland (1772–1795). Its successor — the...

subscribed to the Union of Brest. In the process, they switched their allegiances and jurisdiction from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to...