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Mir

Hrodna Region, Belarus
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About Mir

Mir is a metropolis in Karelicy raion, Hrodna Voblast, Belarus on the banks of Miranka River, about eighty five kilometers southwest of the country wide capital, Minsk. Prior to 1939 the town changed into in Poland. Mir became founded sometime prior to 1345. It is domestic to a past due medieval castle, which made the town the goal of many assaults over the centuries. The town belonged to the Illinic circle of relatives first and then to the Radziwi own family.

It changed into destroyed by way of the Swedish forces in 1655 and again by using the Swedes all through the Great Northern War in 1706. In 1792, the Lithuanian division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth navy underneath Jozef Judycki turned into routed by using the invading Imperial Russian army corps below Boris Mellin. During the Napoleonic invasion of Russia in 1812, Russian Imperial cavalry, artillery and cossack regiments ambushed and routed the Duchy of Warsaw three uhlan divisions.

The taking flight Russians, chickening out east, abandoned the city and dynamited the castle. During the Middle Ages it became first placed within the Principality of Polotsk, after the Battle at the river Nemiga inside the Principality of Minsk, then was taken over by using Kievan Rus' however after the Mongol Invasion the Rus' rule faded and in view that 1242 Mir belonged to the increasing and dynamic Duchy of Lithuania.

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