Editing Terespol (section)

==Overview==
Since 1999 Terespol has been within [[Biała Podlaska County]] in [[Lublin Voivodeship]]. Between 1975 and 1998 it belonged to [[Biała Podlaska Voivodeship]]. The town is a busy border crossing between Poland and Belarus on the [[European route E30]] which links [[Berlin]]-[[Warsaw]]-[[Minsk]]-[[Moscow]]. Another crossing into [[Brest, Belarus|Brest]] is located at [[Kukuryki]] northwest of Terespol. There was also a local train between [[Brest, Belarus|Brest]] and Terespol. It comes 3 times a day. The trip took 18 minutes and was a very comfortable way of crossing border between [[Belarus]] and [[Poland]]. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the train was cancelled at the beginning of 2020 and has been suspended for an indefinite period.

Terespol features in a [[novel]] by the [[Yiddish literature|Yiddish]] [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize-winning]] writer [[Isaac Bashevis Singer]], ''[[The Family Moskat]]'' (1950), in which the young protagonist, Asa Heshel Bennet, comes to [[Warsaw]] from his hometown of Terespol Minor to study.