The Dramatic History of the Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle in Ukraine: From Castle to Prison

It has been claimed that Kamianets-Podilskyi is the city with the most places of architectural interest in Ukraine after Kyiv and Lviv. This city is located on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine, and is believed by some scholars to have been established by the Dacians during the Dacian Wars. It has also been speculated that this city was originally known as Petridava or Klepidava (petra and lapis meaning stone in Greek and Latin respectively, whilst dava was the Dacian word for city). One is able to say with more certainty that the city was in existence during the Middle Ages – and it was during this time that the Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle, the city’s best-known structure, was built.