Principality of Novgorod-Seversk

Principality of Chernigov
Но́вгород-Се́верское княжество (Old East Slavic)
Personal union with the Principality of Chernigov
1185–1240


Coat of arms

Capital Novgorod-Seversk
Languages Official language:
Old East Slavic
Religion Official religion:
Orthodox
Government monarchy
Legislature Prince
History
 •  Established 1185
 •  Disestablished 1240
Currency Grivna
Today part of
Seal of Karibut

The Principality of Novgorod-Seversk was a medieval Rus' principality centered on the town now called Novhorod-Siverskyi. The principality was aligned to the Principality of Chernigov. It may have been created in 1139, the date of one modern authority.[1] In 1185, a large Rus'ian campaign against the Polovtsy ended in defeat for Prince Igor, famously recorded in The Tale of Igor's Campaign. The principality was taken by the principality of Briansk after the Mongol invasions, and then by the Lithuanians when the power of the Golden Horde began to decline. In the fifteenth-century the principality was given to Prince Ivan of Mozhaisk when he fled from Grand Prince Vasily II.

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Notes

  1. ↑ Cawley, Charles, FMG, Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, .

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