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| Coat of arms of the city of Gomel |
The city of Gomel is the administrative center of the Gomel region, the second most populated city in the country as of January 1, 2017, 535,229 people.
It is located in the south-east of the republic on the Sozh River, 302 km south-east of Minsk, 534 km east of Brest, 171 km south of Mogilev, 237 km west of Bryansk, 111 km north of Chernigov , 567 km southwest of Moscow.
The assumption of the origin of the name of the city is Swan Pond (a modern view of the Gomeyuk stream).
Chronicles of the city from 1142 to the 16th century are present in the forms of Gom, Gomye, Gomei, Gomya, Gomiy, Gomin, Gom.
In the first annalistic mention of 1142, the form of the name Gomias is fixed. The modern form was established only in the XVII-XVIII centuries.
There are at least six versions of the origin of the name Gomel. One of the most common - the name was given to him by the Gomeyuk stream, which flowed into the Sozh River at the foot of a hill, where the first settlement was once founded. Numerous analogies in the names of the cities of Belarus speak in favor of this version: Minsk - on Menka, Polotsk - on Polot, Vitebsk - on Vitba. The name of the Gomeyuk stream can come from the Finnish homma joki - “fast river”.
Some scholars fundamentally see the ancient Slavic word gom “hill, hill”.
Folk etymology offers the following explanation. The Iput River, which flows into the Sozh, cuts through stony stranded. The noise of a river breaking through stones is heard today. This stranded and haulage may have given the name to the city. Gomei is the name of the threshold on Iputi. From him went the name of the town.
The assumption of the origin of the name of the city is Swan Pond (a modern view of the Gomeyuk stream).
Chronicles of the city from 1142 to the 16th century are present in the forms of Gom, Gomye, Gomei, Gomya, Gomiy, Gomin, Gom.
In the first annalistic mention of 1142, the form of the name Gomias is fixed. The modern form was established only in the XVII-XVIII centuries.
There are at least six versions of the origin of the name Gomel. One of the most common - the name was given to him by the Gomeyuk stream, which flowed into the Sozh River at the foot of a hill, where the first settlement was once founded. Numerous analogies in the names of the cities of Belarus speak in favor of this version: Minsk - on Menka, Polotsk - on Polot, Vitebsk - on Vitba. The name of the Gomeyuk stream can come from the Finnish homma joki - “fast river”.
Some scholars fundamentally see the ancient Slavic word gom “hill, hill”.
Folk etymology offers the following explanation. The Iput River, which flows into the Sozh, cuts through stony stranded. The noise of a river breaking through stones is heard today. This stranded and haulage may have given the name to the city. Gomei is the name of the threshold on Iputi. From him went the name of the town.
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