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Dubrovytsia (Ukrainian: Дубровиця [dʊˈbrɔwɪtsʲɐ]; Polish: Dąbrowica; Yiddish: דומברוביצא, romanizedDombrovitsa) is a city in Rivne Oblast, Ukraine. It was the administrative center of Dubrovytsia Raion until the raion was abolished in 2020. It is the site of the now ruined Jewish shtetl of Dombrovitza. Population: 9,343 (2022 estimate).

Among the most notable historical landmarks in the city are a rococo Roman Catholic church founded in 1740 by Kazimierz Pniewski and two Orthodox churches: one founded in 1861 by Ignacy Plater (whose manor until 1917 was located in Worobin, some 3 kilometres north of the city) and the other built in 1872. Until the Holocaust the city also had three synagogues.

Dubrovytsia is located upon the Horyn river in the historical region of Volhynian Polesia.

Initially one part of the Kyivan Rus Turov-Pinsk Principality, during the late 12th century Dubrovytsia became the centre of a separate fiefdom. Its princes took part in wars against Cumans and Mongols, including the Battle of Kalka in 1223. During the latter half of the 14th century Dubrovytsia became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and came under control of the Holszanski family. In 1571 it was transferred as dowry to prince Andrey Kurbsky. During the Great Northern War the local wooden Church of John the Baptist was destroyed by troops of Charles XII of Sweden. Among notbale people who visited or lived in Dubrovytsia during the 19th century were Napoleon Orda and Nadezhda Durova.

Although in modern times part of Rivne Oblast, Dubrovytsia was historically not part of Volhynia but rather Land of Brest. It was not until 1805 that it was administratively attached to Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire, along with many other lands formerly belonging to now-partitioned Poland.

In 19th century Dąbrowica was a notable centre of commerce, with a number of factories and manufactures serving the local market. It was also notable for its college run by Piarist monks, established in 1695 by Jan Dolski. Although the Piarist convent was dissolved in 1832 in the aftermath of the November Uprising, the school continued to exist until it was closed by Soviet authorities in 1939, following the joint Soviet and German invasion of Poland. Among its alumni were Cyprian Godebski, Alojzy Feliński and Łukasz Gołębiowski.

During World War I and the two years following it, the town passed hands many times between various powers including the Bolshevik Russian army, the Polish Democratic Republic army, local Militia (Bolokhovists), national Ukrainian forces led by Petliura, the German army and allied Hetman authorities, a local rebel army (which included all four ethnicity groups: Jews, Poles, Ukrainians and Germans) and others.

The town was owned by a Polish noble family, the Pliater brothers, who were murdered by the farmers as part of the socialist revolution on November 22, 1918. A younger brother survived, but moved away. The town was declared under communist (Bolshevik) self-rule. The Ukrainian army under Symon Petliura took the town for two days.

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