Navahrudak

Navahrudak is a city within the Grodno Region of Belarus. In the 14th century it become an episcopal see of the Metropolitanate of Lithuania. It is a likely first capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, with Trakai additionally noted as a possibility. It turned into later a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Russian Empire and ultimately Poland until the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 when the Soviet Union annexed the place to the Byelorussian SSR.

It became first cited inside the Sophian First Chronicle and Fourth Novgorod Chronicle in 1044 with regards to a battle between Yaroslav I the Wise and Lithuanian tribes. In 1241, it became destroyed by way of the Mongols. It turned into also referred to within the Hypatian Codex in the year of 1252 as Novogorodok. The metropolis turned into a first-rate agreement within the remote western lands of the Krivichs that came beneath the manage of the Kievan Rus on the quit of the tenth century. This hypothesis has been disputed, but, because the earliest archaeological findings date from 11th century.