Novogrod Sewarski, City

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1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.

Novogrodeck Seviersky, a strong City of Russia; which has been attributed to Lithuania, when under the Poles; but now it is under the Russ again. It stands upon the River Dezna; seventeen Polish Miles from Czernichou to the North-East, forty six from Kiovia to the same, and the same distance from Smolensko to the South. This is also the Capital of a Palatinate.