Novgorod Republic
The Novgorod Republic (Roushie: Новгоро́дская респу́блика; Auld Kirk Slavonic: Новгородскаѧ земьлѧ / Novgorodskaja zemľa) wis a muckle medieval Roushie state which stretched frae the Baltic Sea tae the northren Ural Muntains atween the 12t an 15t centuries, which includit the ceety o Novgorod an the Loch Ladoga regions. Ceetizens referred tae their ceety-state as "His Majesty (or Sovereign) Lord Novgorod the Great" (Gosudař Gospodin Velikij Novgorod), or mair eften as "Lord Novgorod the Great" (Gospodin Velikij Novgorod). The Republic prospered as the eastrenmaist port o the Hanseatic League.
Novgorod Republic Новгородскаѧ земьлѧ Novgorodskaya Zemlja | |||||||||||
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| 1136–1478 | |||||||||||
 The Novgorod Republic c. 1400 | |||||||||||
| Caipital | Novgorod | ||||||||||
| Common leids | Offeecial leids: Auld Novgorod Dialect, Auld Kirk Slavonic Unoffeecial leids: Germanic leids Uralic leids | ||||||||||
| Releegion | Eastren Orthodoxy | ||||||||||
| Govrenment | Mixed | ||||||||||
| Prince | |||||||||||
• 1136–1138 (first) | Sviatoslav Olgovich | ||||||||||
• 1462–1478 (last) | Ivan III | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1136 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1478 | ||||||||||
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Gallery
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Birch bark manuscript -
Coins of the Novgorod Republic -
Freemit airtins
eedit- Infoplease: Novgorod History
- The faw o Great Novgorod Archived 2012-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
- Swadish Viking role in Novgorod Archived 2004-08-17 at the Wayback Machine