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Categories: Cities and towns in Russia | Russian history | Bryansk Oblast | Kievan Rus
Vschizh
Vschizh (Вщиж in Russian), was an old Russian town on the Desna River (today's Bryansk Oblast) between the 11th and 13th centuries.
Vschizh was first mentioned in a chronicle of 1142. In the mid-12th century, it was an appanage town of Prince Svyatoslav Vladimirovich . In 1238, Vschizh was destroyed by the Mongols.
As a result of the excavations in the 1840s and then in 1940 and 1948-1949 (by a Soviet archaeologist Boris Rybakov ), they found the remnants of different buildings and fortifications and a number of artifacts.
Categories: Cities and towns in Russia | Russian history | Bryansk Oblast | Kievan Rus
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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