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| | NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ivan III of Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Ivan's refusal to share his conquests with his brothers, and his subsequent interference with the internal politics of their inherited principalities, involved him in several wars with them, from which, though the princes were assisted by Lithuania, he emerged victorious. |
 | | Finally, Ivan's new rule of government, formally set forth in his last will to the effect that the domains of all his kinsfolk, after their deaths, should pass directly to the reigning grand duke instead of reverting, as hitherto, to the princes heirs, put an end once and for all to these semi-independent princelings. |
 | | It was in the reign of Ivan III that Muscovy rejected the Tatar yoke. |
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