Principality of Navahrudak
Principality of Navahrudak Навагрудскае княства (Belarusian) | |||||||||
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| late 12th century–1390s | |||||||||
Navahrudak in the 1260s, when it became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Ruthenia. | |||||||||
| Status |
(late 12th century–1220s)
(1220s–1260s)
(1260s–1390s) | ||||||||
| Capital | Navahrudak | ||||||||
| Common languages | Old East Slavic, Ruthenian | ||||||||
| Religion | Eastern Orthodoxy | ||||||||
| Government | Principality | ||||||||
| Prince of Navahrudak | |||||||||
• 1237 | Iziaslav of Navahrudak | ||||||||
| Legislature | Veche | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | late 12th century | ||||||||
• Secession from Horoden | 1220s | ||||||||
| 1237–1240 | |||||||||
• Incorporation into Lithuania | 1390s | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1390s | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Belarus | ||||||||
The Principality of Navahrudak or Novogrudok was one of the appanage principalities of Black Ruthenia, emerging just before the end of Kievan Rus'. Its capital was Navahrudak, one of the centres of the region of Poniemnie or Panyamonne (in modern western Belarus). It was formed some time before the 1220s. For some time in the 13th and 14th centuries, it was the subject of struggle between the Gediminid Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Romanovychi Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia (Ruthenia). In the 1390s, the principality was abolished and incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.