formations in Russia, covering its northwest and north. Novgorod Land, centered in Veliky Novgorod, was in the cradle of Kievan Rus' under the rule of the...

Velikiy Novgorod) becoming common in the 15th century. Novgorod Land and Novgorod volost usually referred to the land belonging to Novgorod. Novgorod Republic...

Veliky Novgorod (Russian: Великий Новгород, lit. 'Great Newtown', IPA: [vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪj ˈnovɡərət]), also known simply as Novgorod (Новгород), is the largest...

from Novgorod in the 13th century; its independence was confirmed by the Treaty of Bolotovo in 1348. After the fall of the republic, Novgorod Land, as...

собор Софии Премудрости Божией) in Veliky Novgorod, Russia, is the cathedral church of the Metropolitan of Novgorod and the mother church of the Novgorodian...

Nizhny Novgorod is the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the Volga Federal District in Russia. The city is located at the confluence...

newly incorporated Novgorod land. As these censuses counted adult heads of households the total population estimates of Novgorod land vary between 500 and...

Comments Photo Category on Commons 1. The Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod Veliky Novgorod 1045–1052 The oldest surviving building in Northern Russia. Category...

Nizhny Novgorod Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, Russian Republic, and the Russian SFSR, roughly corresponding...

Vodskaya, Shelonskaya and Derevskaya pyatinas of Novgorod Land, Sofiyskaya side of the city of Novgorod, Pskov, Izborsk, Ivangorod, Koporye. Until February...

the sea" (by modern interpretations, from Scandinavia), first to the Novgorod Land, then to the south where they created the medieval Kievan state. In...

(later part of the Novgorod Land - Novgorodskaja Zemlja, and the Novgorod Republic) Derevians / Derevian Ilmen Slovenians (in Dereva Land - Derevskaja Zemlja)...

The massacre of Novgorod (Russian: Новгородский погром, romanized: Novgorodsky pogrom) was an attack launched by Ivan the Terrible's oprichniki on the...

Republic. Agricultural land occupies 41% of this area; forests, 48%, lakes and rivers, 2%; and other lands, 9%. Nizhny Novgorod Oblast borders Kostroma...

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administrative division of Novgorod Land. The name pyatina originates from the word Russian: пять, which means "five". Novgorod Land was subdivided into five...

Speakers of colloquial English coined the term "Bololand" to refer to the land of the Bolos (a term identified from 1919 onwards with the Bolsheviks). On...

Hanseatic League, on the right bank of the Volkhov at Novgorod, Russia, then forming the Novgorod Republic.: 99  It was named after St. Peter's Church...

The Prince of Novgorod (Russian: князь новгородский, romanized: knyaz novgorodsky) was the title of the ruler of Novgorod in present-day Russia. From...

some and confiscating land and possessions. Thus began a decade of terror in Russia that culminated in the Massacre of Novgorod (1570). As a result of...

"kinsman" Rurik as ruler of Novgorod, and subdued many of the East Slavic tribes to his rule, extending his control from Novgorod to the south along the Dnieper...

the land, which included Nizhny Novgorod, Gorodets and Unzha, became the property of Prince Konstantin of Suzdal. An independent Nizhny Novgorod-Suzdal...

Western Roman Empire. Since large parts of today's Russia, specifically the land between the Ural Mountains and the Don River, were controlled in the fifth...

Novgorod, Pskov, Smolensk, Tver, Yugra, Perm, Vyatka, Bolgar, and others, and the Grand Prince of Novgorod of the lower lands [i.e. Nizhny Novgorod]...

Socialist-Revolutionary Party). The SRs advocated a form of agrarian socialism and land policy that the peasantry overwhelmingly supported. For the most part, urban...

Novgorod Land 882–1136 Principality of Polotsk 987–1397 Principality of Chernigov 988–1402 Rostov-Suzdal 1093–1157     full list......

The Capture of Novgorod by the Swedes was an event of the Time of Troubles, which entailed the Swedish occupation of Novgorod from July 1611 until its...

A veche was a type of popular assembly in the Middle Ages. In Novgorod and Pskov, where the veche acquired great prominence, the veche was broadly similar...

chieftain of the Rus' who, according to tradition, was invited to reign in Novgorod in the year 862. The Primary Chronicle states that Rurik was succeeded...

aim to conquer the lands of Pskov and Novgorod and convert them to Catholicism. The conflict between Novgorod and Teutonic Knights began in 1210, when...