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Veliky Novgorod

A cradle of Russian statehood on the Volkhov, its waterlogged soil preserving about a thousand birchbark letters.

Dated events and their evidence

• 859 CE mainstream
  first chronicle mention source
• 1050 CE mainstream
  St Sophia Cathedral built; earliest birchbark documents source

Where

58.5500° N, 31.2670° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veliky_Novgorod

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