Ovruch
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Ovruch is a city in Korosten Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine.
St. Basil Church
19th-century view of the city
Ruins of a house after the 2022 Russian invasion
St. Basil's Church
Drevlians
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The Drevlians, Derevlians or Derevlianians were a tribe of East Slavs between the 6th and the 10th centuries, which inhabited the territories of Polesia and right-bank Ukraine, west of the eastern Pol
Ovruch
…Овруч, IPA: ) is a city in Korosten Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. It was first mentioned as Vruchiy in 977. It was the capital city of the Drevlians in the 10th century, later conquered by the Mongol Empire in the 13th century, then later part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In the 16th century it…
European territory inhabited by East Slavic tribes in 8th and 9th centuries
Igor of Kiev Exacting Tribute from the Drevlians, by Klavdiy Lebedev (1852–1916)
Olga's revenge for the assassination of her husband