Talk:Brest, Belarus

message: The following caught my attention: It was renamed Brest-Litovsk in the 14th century and became the capital of the combined Polish and Lithuanian kingdom in 1569. While the earlier might be true (but I guess that the city was not renamed per se but simply changed its name in one of the languages used around (while the others continued to call the city the way it was called). As to the latter statement - could anyone provide any info? I never heard of Brest being the capital of the Commonwealth since both the king, the grand duke and the sejm had their sites elsewhere... Halibutt 10:30, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: old comment on names from 2004

message: Ashdod is a twinned city of Brest but it's missing in the list of twinned cities - came across this here "Ashdod is home to one of the largest and most active Belarusian communities in Israel which makes a contribution to the promotion of the cultural dialogue. Ashdod is also a sister city of Brest where a monument to Israeli Prime Minister, Nobel Peace Prize Menachem Begin, who was born and raised in the Belarusian town, was opened."   http://eng.belta.by/society/view/monument-to-belarusian-poet-yanka-kupala-unveiled-in-israel-87946-2015/ I also had a look on the Ashdod, Israel wiki and Brest appears as a twinned city. Can someone add it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.69.174.42 (talk) 15:08, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing Twinned City 

message: I slighty modified the history section reagrding the 1596 Union of Brest to make it more understandable, I also replaced "Uniate Church" with "Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church" (Uniate is a term us Eastern Catholics find offensive, it is kind of like calling a Jew a "kike"). User:starzaz  —Preceding comment was added at 19:18, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Union of Brest 

message: Additions, corrections and modifications are welcomed. Larry Schenker (Binenbaum) from Los Angeles, California, United States 05:26, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additions, corrections and modifications 

message: Closed? That is not the truth. See ru:Брест_(аэропорт).
--Sesquialteral 21:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Local airport 

message: "Being situated on the main Berlin–Moscow railway line and intercontinental highway"—exactly which continents are linked by this highway? --Redaktor (talk) 20:59, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intercontinental highway 

message: I stumbled upon this article and was surprised not to see a link for Brest, France in the disambiguation.
Maybe it's a consequence of the whole "Lithuanian name debate" in this talk page, but it feels like it should be included since (as it currently stands) both cities have the same spelling in Wikipedia.
Why not including something like this, as is done on the Brest, France page? For other uses, see Brest.
I'll make the change to the main page but wanted to add a little blurb, since redirection has been an issue for this article.NeWDaC (talk) 23:51, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I am curious on this subject also.  When it was called "Lithuanian Brest" ("Brest Litovsk"), presumably that was to distinguish it from some other "Brest," most likely in the region.  The French "Brest" seems too small and far away to qualify. Hcunn (talk) 03:33, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello. For your information, the metropolitan area Brest in France reaches 300,300 inhabitants so barely the same size as Brest in Belarus and from a western European oint of view, is more famous. I also think that Brest in France has more influence in Europe, notablebly because of its industrial and research facilities. Monsieur W (talk) 22:47, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Brest? 

message: Can religious and/or ethnic make-up be added?  Since the historical predominance of Jews is mentioned, it would be of interest to know about the Jewish population (if any) of today.Kdammers (talk) 03:24, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  religion/ethnic make-up 

message: Brest is a regional city, it is not a part of Brest District.
It is the same level of administration. Brest is its own "district" - Brest (City), and Brest District is surrounding area.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.45.51.199 (talk) 22:45, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brest District 

message: There seems to be a broad gauge track going from Brest into Poland.--Bk1 168 (talk) 15:42, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Railroad 

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message: It seems to me that the two sections serve the same purpose and should be merged. Does anyone disagree? If there is a substantial difference in the latter, it should be renamed to something more specific. 1980fast (talk) 05:00, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge "Points of Interest" and "Sights around Brest" sections? 

message: There seem to be two photographs of this facility featured in the article, taken from virtually identical perspectives. It's nice for there to be colour but this does seem a tad repetitious. I would submit that the first is the better image, but the second is the better location and caption, so my suggestion would be to move the first into the space currently occupied by the second. Any other views? Lordrosemount (talk) 15:44, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regional Sport Complex Brestsky