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• Historical NamesThe city was called "Nizhny" ("Lower") after the Nizovskaya Land (the "lower" country), and not after the flow of its rivers: in the title of the Russian tsars it was styled …
• Nizhny Novgorod Region… known as the Nizovskaya (Lower) Land, and in the title of Russian tsars the city was called "Novgorod of the Nizovskaya Land " until 1917. [5] In 1341 the Nizhny Novgorod-Suzdal Grand Principality was established, and in 1392 Vasily …
• Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas Diocese… Moscow Council. The decision was hastened by the dangerous growth in the number of Old Believers in the " Nizovaya Land " (the Lower Land), where Moscow Old Believers, as well as Razin's followers — participants in the peasant …

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