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Kamianets-Podilskyi
Kamieniec Podolsk
Каменец-Подольский
Cameniţa
Kamaniçe
Camenecium
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In 1062, Kamianets-Podilskyi was first mentioned as a town of the Kievan Rus' state.
Some historians claimed that the city was founded by the Dacians, which lived in parts now located in Romania and Moldova as well as portions of Ukraine.
Others claim that the founders named the settlement Petridava or Klepidava, which originate from the Greek word petra or the Latin lapis meaning "stone" and the Dacian dava meaning "city").

In 1241, Kamianets-Podilskyi was destroyed by the Mongol Tatar invaders.

In 1352, Kamianets-Podilskyi was annexed by the Polish King Casimir III, and became the capital of Podole Voivodship and the seat of local civil and military administration.

During the Khmelnytsky uprising (1648-58) the Jewish community of Kamianets-Podilskyi suffered much from Chmielnicki's Cossacks, and from the attacks of the Crimean Tatars.

Kamenets-Podilskkyi became celebrated as the center of the conflict then raging between the Talmudic Jews and the Frankists; the city was the residence of Bishop Dembowski, who sided with the Frankists and ordered the public burning of the Talmud, which sentence was carried into effect in the public streets in 1757.

In 1915, Kamianets-Podilskyi was occupied by Austria-Hungary.

In 1917, when the Russian Empire collapsed, Kamianets-Podilskyi was briefly incorporated into several short-lived Ukrainian states — the Ukrainian People's Republic, the Hetmanate, and the Directoriya — and finally became part of the Ukrainian SSR when Ukraine fell to the Bolshevik.

On August 27-28, 1941, one of the first and largest Holocaust mass-murder events occurred near Kamianets-Podilskyi.
23,600 Jews were killed, most of them Hungarian Jews (14,000-16,000) and the rest local Polish Jews.
The Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre was the first mass action in the “final Solution” of the Nazis.
Eye-witnesses reported that the perpetrators made no effort to hide their deeds from the local population.