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The Grand Duchy of Moscow (Russian: Великое княжество Московское, romanized: Velikoye knyazhestvo Moskovskoye), also known as the Principality of Moscow, or simply Muscovy (from the Latin Moscovia), was a principality of the Late Middle Ages centered on Moscow.
Coat of arms of Moscow. Adopted. November 23, 1993 (current version) Coat of arms of Moscow Oblast. The coat of arms of Moscow depicts a horseman with a spear in his hand slaying a basilisk and is identified with Saint George and the Dragon. The heraldic emblem of Moscow has been an integral part of the coat of arms of Russia since the 16th ...
The Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars (also known as the Russo-Lithuanian Wars or simply Muscovite Wars or Lithuanian Wars) [nb 1] were a series of wars between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, allied with the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which was later unified with other Russian principalities to eventually become the Tsardom of ...
Grand Principality of Moscow: Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Victory 1495–1497 Russo-Swedish War: Grand Principality of Moscow: Sweden: Inconclusive 1500–1503 Second Muscovite–Lithuanian War: Grand Principality of Moscow: Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Livonian Order. Victory 1505–1507 Russo-Kazan War: Grand Principality of Moscow: Khanate of ...
May 17, 2018 · Moscow, Grand Duchy of Historic Russian state. Centred on the trading centre of Moscow, in the late 15th century it emerged from Mongol and Tatar rule as the centre of a unified Russian state, defeating the principality of Novgorod and absorbing part of Lithuania. grand duchy of Moscow [1], state existing in W central Russia from the late 14th ...
The 1439 Siege of Moscow was a ten-day siege of Moscow, then the capital city of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, by Ulugh Muhammad, the Tatar Khan of the Kazan Khanate, during the First Russo-Kazan war . After defeating the troops of Vasily II in the Battle of Belyov, Ulugh Muhammad approached Moscow after a while.
The Metropolis of Moscow and all Russia was a metropolis that was unilaterally erected by hierarchs of the Eastern Orthodox Church in the territory of the Grand Duchy of Moscow [B 1] in 1448. The first metropolitan was Jonah of Moscow; he was appointed without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. [1]
