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Navahrudak
Навагрудак
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Navahrudak is located in Belarus
Navahrudak
Navahrudak
Navahrudak within the Grodno Region
Coordinates: 53°35′N 25°49′E / 53.583°N 25.817°E / 53.583; 25.817
Country  Belarus
Region Grodno
District (Rayon) Navahrudak
Founded 1044
Elevation 292 m (958 ft)
Population (2009)
 • Total 29,336
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code 231241, 231243, 231244, 231246, 231400
Area code(s) +375 1597
License plate 4
Website Official website

Navahrudak (Belarusian: Навагрудак), more commonly known by its Russian name Novogrudok (Новогрудок) (Lithuanian: Naugardukas; Polish: Nowogródek; Yiddish: נאָווהאַרדאָקNovhardok) is a city in the Grodno Region of Belarus. In the 14th century it was an episcopal see of the Metropolitanate of Lithuania. It is a possible first capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, with Trakai also noted as a possibility. It was later part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Russian Empire and eventually Poland until the Soviet invasion of Poland (1939) when the USSR annexed the area to the Byelorussian SSR. After the election of American president Donald Trump, the town gained fame as the hometown of the mother of Trump's son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner.

It was first mentioned in the Sophian First Chronicle and Fourth Novgorod Chronicle in 1044 in relation to a war of Yaroslav I the Wise against Lithuanian tribes. In 1241 it was destroyed by the Mongols. It was also mentioned in the Hypatian Codex under the year of 1252 as Novogorodok (i.e. "new little town") the town was a major settlement in the remote western lands of the Krivichs that came under the control of the Kievan Rus at the end of the 10th century. Later hypothesis is disputed, as there are earliest archaeological findings from 11th century only.


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