Historical Geography Journal ISSN 2782-6511

Tatiana S. Bubenko
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Vitebsk State University named after P. M. Masherov
Vitebsk, Belarus
E-mail: tanya.bubenko@mail.ru
ORCID: 0000-0003-3254-2747

Andrey A. Metelsky
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Minsk, Belarus
E-mail: andreika.miacelski60@gmail.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-0930-6415

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UDC 94(476):528.9
DOI: 10.58529/2782-6511-2023-2-3-6-21

ABSTRACT. The article, based on the analysis of the archaeological material of previous researchers and new materials obtained by the authors of the article, states that the settlement on the territory of the chronicle Novogorodok arose at the end of the 10 th century and from the very beginning existed as a large craft and trade point in the Upper Ponemanye region. It consisted of a small fortified center and an open craft and trading settlement. Its transformation into a city — an administrative, military, craft and trade, cult and cultural center of the region — occurred only at the beginning of the 12th century, when a powerful detinets (with an area of about 3,5 hectares) was erected, combining the modern Castle Hill and the Small Castle of Novogrudok, to the west of which the posad was located. Construction of a new fortified town at the beginning of the 12 th century (Novogorodka) chronologically fits into the activities of the dynasty of the Grodno princely house, which appeared in the beginning of the 12th century, the first representative of which was the Grodno Prince Vsevolodka and then his sons Boris, Gleb and Mstislavl, who ruled in the middle – second half of the 12th century. Archaeological research carried out on Castle Hill and the Small Castle of Novogrudok shows that initially a single detinets of the city was topographically divided into two parts. On the territory of the modern Small Castle there were estates of the feudal elite and the artisans serving them, possibly a princely court and a stone temple. The modern Castle Hill territory was occupied by outbuildings. The single detinets of Novogrudok was cut by a defensive ditch on Castle Hill and the Small Castle in the first half of the 14th century due to the start of construction of a stone castle caused by the crusaders’ campaigns.

KEYWORDS: transformation of the settlement, detinets, Novogorodok, Ponemanye, Grodno princes.

For citation: Bubenko T. S., Metelsky A. A. On The Question of the Genesis of Novogrudok // Historical Geography Journal. 2023 Vol. 2 № 3 P. 6–21.

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