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  AlatanTour
Navahrudak is one of the most ancient towns of Belarus.
It is situated on picturesque hills in the center of the Navahrudak sublimity.
In the 16th century Navahrudak Castle had seven towers and was one of the most fortified citadels in Belarus.
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  EuroFocus. Medieval Festival Navahrudak 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Navahrudak is the place where the first Lithuanian king was crowned.
Navahrudak castle was one of the strongest citadels of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
It is the nature of Navahrudak that continues to struggle against one of the main madness of the Soviet building tradition: asphaltisation of paths.
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 AlatanTour
Navahrudak is one of the most ancient towns of Belarus.
It is situated on picturesque hills in the center of the Navahrudak sublimity.
In the 16th century Navahrudak Castle had seven towers and was one of the most fortified citadels in Belarus.
www.alatantour.com /eng/navahrudak_castle.shtml   (495 words)

  
 What&Where Minsk   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Navahrudak played a very important role in the life of the country in the 14th - 18th centuries as well.
The rise of Navahrudak is related to Grand Duke Mindoug activities who was crowned there as King of Lithuania in 1253 and made the town the capital of the state.
The ruins of Navahrudak Castle represent one of the main historical memorials in Belarus.
www.minskreview.com /n3/novogr-e.html   (1003 words)

  
 History
It all began at the end of the 10 century when Slavs came to the territory inhabited by Baltic tribes and built a fortified town and castle on the highest hill in the area.
It was then in the 16 th century, which is sometimes called "the golden age" for Belarus that multinational and policonfessional character of Navahrudak with many religions present it came into view.
Today Navahrudak is a district center in Hrodna region, 60 thousand people live on the territory of about 1600 square km.
www.navahrudak.newmail.ru /Novogrud/History/history.htm   (396 words)

  
 NAVAHRADAK Articles Navahrudak, Novgorodok or Novogrudo
Navahrudak was a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth following the Union of Lublin in 1569.
In the First World War, it was under German occupation from 1915 to 1918, and was later occupied by the Red Army, during the Polish-Bolshevik war.
It was returned to Poland by the treaty of Riga, following which Navahrudak became the capital of Nowogródek voivodship.
www.amazines.com /Navahradak_related.html   (461 words)

  
 Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Between 1054 and 1448, this Ruthenian Church continued to send representatives to the ecumenical councils called by the Pope of Rome, but also succumbed to increasing pressure by her mother church among the Greeks in Constantinople to cease communion with the Bishop (Pope) of Rome.
This union was not accepted by all the members of the Greek Church in these lands, and marked the beginning of the creation of separate Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox Churches on the lands of Ukraine and Belarus.
Due to violence, the Metropolitan of the Kyivan Greek Catholic Church left Kyiv early in the 1600s and settled in Navahrudak and Wilno in Belarus.
open-encyclopedia.com /Ukrainian_Greek_Catholic_Church   (1446 words)

  
 :: Wschodnioeuropejskie Centrum Demokratyczne ::
In addition, the authorities in Navahrudak requested from the parents of the children which began their education in the Polish language, to show proof of their Polish origin, which is a serious violation of the rights of parents and their children.
From the beginning the authorities of Navahrudak motivated the refusal to build the school by a result of a lack of funding in the cities budget.
The inactivity of the Ministry of Education in the department of creating a state program of education in the mother tongue, and also that in Belarus school text-books and educational supplements are not published in the Polish language can be viewed as a restriction of rights to educate in the mother tongue.
www.eedc.org.pl /eng/www/biblioteka/3sektor/11_gawin.htm   (6701 words)

  
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 Send Flowers to Navahrudak, Belarus | Flower Delivery Navahrudak, Belarus | Florists in Navahrudak, Belarus
Sending flowers from the UK across the world to Navahrudak doesn’t make sense, as it's not environmentally friendly.
Our partner florists in Navahrudak are vetted and must meet exacting standards, so a high quality arrangement is assured.
Naturally, whilst we endeavour to be as prompt as possible, due to time differences and distance, delivery confirmations relating to flowers for Navahrudak will not be quite as timely as those confirming delivery of our own bouquets in the UK.
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 Belarusian Architecture
Navahrudak were having 3-4 round glass windows, in which glass plates were installed into special wooden frames.
Navahrudak, Slonim and Brest were often having more complex plans and multiple chambers.
The remains of Navahrudak Castle, and its restored look.
www.belarusguide.com /culture1/visual_arts/Architecture.html   (4087 words)

  
 History of Belarus Short Overvie
Under the threat of the crusaders' and Mongolo-Tatars' aggression (the latter conquered the eastern and southern parts of Rus (ancient Russia)), the north-western territories of Belarus situated around Navahrudak united with the territories of the neighbouring Baltic tribes into one state-the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Mindovg became the head of the new state and in 1353, pursuing political goals, he became king and embraced Catholicism, which he soon abandoned.
Navahrudak became the first capital of the Duchy and was superseded by Vilnya (modern Vilnius) in 1323.
www.belarusembassy.org /belarus/short_overview.htm   (3499 words)

  
 Only one picket - Charter'97 :: News from Belarus - Belarusian News - Republic of Belarus - Minsk
The pickets were permitted only in Brest and Navahrudak.
Brest town executive committee permitted the picket on Sunday from 3 till 5 p.m.
They took some our news-papers, read them with interest, they said “we are also deprived of some privileges – free using of public transport, 6 additional days for holiday”.
www.charter97.org /en/news/2007/10/1/220   (436 words)

  
 Canadian Slavonic Papers: year 1905 and the revival of Polish culture between the neman and the dnepr, The
In the spring of 1906 this amateur group acted in Vitsebsk (this time little interest was shown).
However, on 6 August 1906 the inaugural performance of the amateur theatre group in Navahrudak was a great success.
One of the first concerts was held on 12 February 1906 in Navahrudak.
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 Pravapis.org - Belarus
Travel another 50km westwards from Mir, and you come to Navahrudak, a town which for symbolic importance in Belarus is something like Shakespeare's Stratford and Magna Carta's Runnymede combined.
Later, when the grand dukes moved to Vilnia (Vilnius), capital of present-day Lithuania, the court at Navahrudak had a Europe-wide reputation for fairness.
But there is a more modern source of inspiration in Navahrudak too: as the home of Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), a poet who embodies the values of the Enlightenment-freedom, reason, supranationality.
www.pravapis.org /art_belarus1.asp   (886 words)

  
 Mickiewicz’s Epic Poem Pan Tadeusz: The Most Famous Work of One of Poland’s great Romanticists
As a poet he was bound to express the unrest of his time.
Adam Mickiewicz was born near Navahrudak (now in Belarus, but then part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth).
In 1795 it came under the control of Imperial Russia; therefore, by the time of his birth his home was already occupied by a foreign power.
world-poetry.suite101.com /article.cfm/mickiewiczs_epic_poem_pan_tadeusz   (641 words)

  
 Brick castles of Lithuania
In the middle of the 13th century it was annexed to Lithuania and ruled by Vaišalgas (Vaišelga), the son of King Mindaugas.
Although a lot of Belarusians believe that Navahrudak was the first capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the place of coronation of Mindaugas (1253), this belief originates from the Chronicle of Maciej Stryjkowski (1582) and have no ground in the contemporaneous sources.
The brick castle was constructed during the reign of Vytautas (1392-1430) (photo from the Official site of Novogrudok).
viduramziu.istorija.net /pilys/murines-en.htm   (713 words)

  
 ABM -- The "Pahonia" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
The Pahonia (or Pahonya or Pagonia), translated as "pursuit" or "the chase", depicts a knight on horseback and is the traditional symbol, and coat of arms, of the independent Belarus.
In 1918, the Belarusian Democratic Republic adopted as its coat of arms the Pahonia as an emblem that originated in ancient Navahradak (also Navahrudak, Novogrudok, Novogorodok), the first capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Rus', and Samogitia.
The Pahonia represents a knight on horseback, both white, on a red background, the knight having his sword drawn, symbolizing pursuit of an enemy in defense of the homeland.
www.belarus-misc.org /pahonia.htm   (906 words)

  
 Navahrudak travel guide
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Navahrudak, ''Navahradak''(Novogrudok in Russian, Nowogrodek in Polish) is the center of the Navahradak district, situated in the Hrodna region, 162 km East of Hrodna, 22 km from the station Navajel'nia on the railway line Lida-Baranavicy.
Additional travel guides are available in ten languages at Wikitravel.org
www.world66.com /europe/belarus/navahrudak   (69 words)

  
 Navahrudak Internet Cafes
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 Viola - Changeling Venue
Her clothes take on a very different look, that could be described as almost fairyish; Flowing dresses nor flowing skirts, often shorter then the knee, are not unknown.
-1931 – Born near Navahrudak, Belorussia as Hanna Larionov.
-1941 – Rounded up and placed in the Navahrudak Ghetto.
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