Small map titled Khotin, Kamenetz et ravins du haut Dnestr, from wood  engraving with fine detail and clear impression. Overall size approx. 17 x 14.5  cm, image size approx. 11 x 7 cm. From La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes, 19 vol. (1875-94), great work of Elisee Reclus. Cartographer is Charles Perron.

Khotyn

Khotyn (Ukrainian: Хотин, pronounced [xoˈtɪn]; Romanian: Hotin;  see other names) is a city in Dnistrovskyi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast of western  Ukraine and is located south-west of Kamianets-Podilskyi. It hosts the  administration of Khotyn urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.  According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, it has a population of 11,124. Current  population: 9,075 (2021 est.)

Khotyn, first chronicled in 1001, is located on the right (southwestern) bank of  the Dniester River, and is part of the historical region Bessarabia. Important  architectural landmarks within the city include the Khotyn Fortress, constructed  in the 13-15th centuries (new fortress started in 1325, major improvements in  the 1380s and 1460s), and two 15th century constructions by Moldavia's ruler  Stephen the Great: the Prince's Palace (Palatul Domnesc) and the city's clock  tower.

Historically, the town was part of the Principality of Moldavia (1359–1432,  1459–1538, 1541–1562, 1572–1615, 1621–1673, 1699–1712) and the Polish–Lithuanian  Commonwealth (1432-1459, 1538–1541, 1562–1572, 1615–1620, 1673–1699). For most  of the period after 1514, Moldavia was a vassal of the Ottoman Empire, which  also ruled Khotyn directly (1711–1812). Subsequently, it was part of the  Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire (1812–1917), Moldavian Democratic  Republic (1917–1918), Romania (1918–1940, 1941–1944), the Ukrainian Soviet  Socialist Republic within the Soviet Union (1940–1941, 1944–1991) and  independent Ukraine (1991–present).

Kamianets-Podilskyi

Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukrainian: Ка́м'яне́ць-Поді́льський, Polish: Kamieniec  Podolski, Romanian: Camenița, Yiddish: קאַמענעץ־פּאָדאָלסק / קאַמעניץ,  romanized: Kamenetz-Podolsk / Kamenitz) is a city on the Smotrych River in  western Ukraine, to the north-east of Chernivtsi. Formerly the administrative  center of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast, the city is now the administrative center of  the Kamianets-Podilskyi district within the Khmelnytskyi province. It hosts the  administration of Kamianets-Podilskyi urban hromada. Current population has been  estimated as 97,908 (2021 est.)

In 1919–1920, during the unfolding Ukrainian–Soviet War, the city officially  served as the temporary capital of the Ukrainian People's Republic.