Belgorod

Belgorod is a city and the place of job of Belgorod Oblast, Russia, located at the Seversky Donets River 40 kilometers north of the border with Ukraine. "White city, compounding the sememes bely, white, light and gorod town, metropolis. The metropolis thus received its name because the region emerge as wealthy in limestone. Etymologically, the call corresponds to other Slavic city-names of same meaning: Belgrade, Belogradchik, Białogard, Biograd, Bilhorod, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi and so on. Records first point out the settlement in 1237, while the Mongol-led army of Batu Khan ravaged it.

It is unsure whether or not this Belgorod stood on the same internet web page due to the fact the modern metropolis. In 1596 Tsar Feodor Ioannovich of Russia ordered its re-hooked up order as considered one of numerous forts installation to shield Muscovy's Southern borders from the Crimean Tatars. In the 17th century Belgorod suffered time and again from Tatar incursions, in opposition to which Russia constructed from 1633 to 1740 an earthen wall, with twelve forts, extending upwards of 200 miles from the Vorskla within the west to the Don in the east, and known as the Belgorod line. In 1666 the Moscow Patriarchate mounted an archiepiscopal see within the city.