Tver

Tver () is a city in Russia, an administrative center of Tver Oblast. Formerly the capital of a powerful medieval state and the model provinical town of Imperial Russia, it has a population of 453,000 (as of 2003). Tver is located at , at the confluence of Volga and Tvertsa rivers. The city was known as Kalinin (???????) from 1931 to 1990.

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The first written record of Tver is dated 1164. Originally a minor settlement of Novgorodian traders, it passed to the Grand Prince of Vladimir in 1209. In 1246, Alexander Nevsky granted it to his younger brother Yaroslav Yaroslavich (d. 1271), from whom a dynasty of local princes descends. Four of them were killed in the Golden Horde and were proclaimed saints by the Russian Orthodox church.

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