Pskov Republic | ||||||||||||||
Псковская Республика (Pskovskaya Respublika) |
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Eastern Europe, 1466
Pskov Republic
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Capital | Pskov | |||||||||||||
Languages | Old East Slavic, Seto, Russian | |||||||||||||
Religion | Eastern Orthodox Church, Estonian paganism | |||||||||||||
Government | Mixed | |||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||
• | Established | 1348 | ||||||||||||
• | Treaty of Bolotovo | 1348 | ||||||||||||
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Viceroys appointed by G/D Moscow |
1399 |
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Vasili III declared votchina |
1510 | ||||||||||||
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Today part of |
Estonia Russia |
Eastern Europe, 1466
Pskov, known at various times as the Principality of Pskov (Russian: Псковское княжество, Pskovskoye knyazhestvo) or the Pskov Republic (Russian: Псковская Республика, Pskovskaya Respublika), was a medieval state on the south shore of Lake Pskov. The capital city, also named Pskov, was located at the southern end of the Peipus–Pskov Lake system at the southeast corner of Ugandi, about 150 miles (240 km) southwest of Nevanlinna, and 100 miles (160 km) west-southwest of Great Novgorod. It was originally known as Pleskov, and is now roughly equivalent geographically to the Pskov Oblast of Russia. It was a principality ca. 862–1230, after which it was joined to the Novgorod Republic. From 1348, Pleskov became again independent from Novgorod and established an oligarchy.