Chełm, Poland

Poland

Chełm, Poland holds 90 Bunkabop connections with 7474 other places across 16 topics, concentrated in history, military conflict, and religious history. History and military topics together account for the bulk of its connections, reflecting centuries of contested control over this eastern Polish city. Chełm shares strong ties with Warsaw and Lublin. In 1875, Russian authorities forcibly converted the local Uniate Church to Russian Orthodoxy, a rupture that runs through its religious connections. The city was also birthplace of Russian avant-garde painter Kliment Red'ko.