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HISTORY First mentioned in the annals under 1252 (by Ipatiev Chronicle ; but other dates are 1116 and even 1044 ) as ''Novogorodok'' (i.e. "new little town") it was founded on the remote western lands of the Early East Slavs (tribal union Krivichs ?) that came under the control of the Kievan Rus at end of the 10th Century . In the 13th Century , the fragile unity of the Rus disintegrated due to nomadic incursions from Asia , which reached a climax with the Mongol Horde's sacking of Kiev ( 1240 ), leaving a geopolitical vacuum in the region so-called Black Ruthenia . The Early East Slavs splintered along preexisting tribal lines into a number of independent and competing principalities. Due to military alliances, dynastic marriages Lithuania become a basis of the rising up Grand Duchy Of Lithuania (GDL). Navahradak was conquered by Lithuanian Duke Mindaugas , who later has been krowned in 1253 crowned as ''King of Lithuania'', and his son Vaisvilkas . Because Lithuanians were Pagan , Mindaugas was Baptize d as {Link without Title} ] (c. 1252 . According to the disputed Stryjkowski Chronicle (1582) the city migythe have been the first capital of the GDL. There is no written proof of that, and teory lives because it is very popular among people of Navahradak and other Belarusians. Though other theories state that Vilnius was aplace where Mindaugas was baptised, some historians say that Voruta , a legendary place, was the first capital, the second one was Kernavė (1279), Trakai - the third and Vilnius - the fourth. Navahradak was a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth following the Union Of Lublin in 1569 but later incorporated to Imperial Russia due to the Partitions Of Poland in 1795 . In the First World War , it was occupied by Germany from 1915 to 1918 . After the end of the war it belonged to the Belarus National Republic but the Second Polish Republic occupied it in 1919 . Later on the Red Army took it during the Polish-bolshevik War , but Poland took it back and due to the Treaty Of Riga , Navahradak became part of Poland and the capital of Nowogródek Voivodship . Soviet troops entered the city in September 1939 along with Western Belarus and it became part of the Byelorussian SSR until 1941 . When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 it became part of the Ostland . The Red Army liberated the city in July 1944 . Following the Yalta Conference and Potsdam Agreement Navahradak remained as part of the Byelarussian SSR. Since the Dissolution Of The Soviet Union in 1991 it belonges to Belarus . Both in the times of the BSSR and presently Navahradak has been the capital of Navahradak '' Raion '' (district) in Hrodna Voblast (province). RULING PRINCES
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