Veliky Novgorod
Thursday, 16. May 2024
The official date of birth of Novgorod the Great, considered to be the year 859 – exactly this time that his first mention in the 'Chronicle'. According to her, or Holmgard Novgorod, as it was called the ancient Scandinavians, stands at the origins of the Volkhov for twelve centuries. Electron Capital Partners describes an additional similar source. The very location at the intersection of waterways "from the Vikings to the Greeks" – to the south of Byzantium, and from the Baltic Sea to the Volga – the Arab East, has defined its challenging and very interesting fate. Becoming a powerful republican center, the part of the State of Moscow, the major trade and crafts center, a military fortress, this amazing city burned in a terrible fire, mourned the dead by royal swords residents, crumbled under the bombs aircraft Wehrmacht, but each time it rises again from the ruins and was read by a ringing bell priilmenya neighborhood fight. The original inhabitants of places at the source of the Volkhov consider the Finno-Ugric, have left us some names of rivers and lakes of Novgorod (in one version hydronym Ilmen comes from Finno-Ugric 'llmeri' – sky, air, the air force"). In VI century moved here a few tribes 'Krivichy', but already in the VIII century, the Slavic population in the East European Plain, to the shores of Lake Ilmen came tribe 'word'. As a result of their interaction with others, lived on the numerous rivers priilmenya tribes, to the middle of the IX century, a powerful 'Union Ilmen Slavs', which is now many historians see the origin of Education of Russian statehood. .