Tver ( Russian Тверь in ) is a town of Russia, on the the Volga, with the mouth of the Tvertsa. It is on the road of Moscow to Saint-Pétersbourg, to 176 km in the North-West of Moscow. Tver is the administrative center of the Oblast de Tver. Its population rises with: 405600 inhabitants in 2006.

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The city changed the name of Kalinin of 1931 to 1990.

Archbishop's palace, Court of Appeal, gymnasium, seminar, school of military orphans, institute of noble young people.

Cathedral, palate archiépiscopal, town hall, hotel of the government, law courts, bazaar, several places.

History

Initially simple extremely, built by Vsévolod, prince de Vladimir, in 1182, Tver became about 1250 the chief town of a particular principality which ceased existing only in 1490, under the tsar Ivan III.

At the 14th century, Tver was one of the most important principalities of Russia and engaged a thankless struggle against Moscow, the two principalities projecting to unify the Russian grounds. However, princes of Moscow, whose Ivan Kalita, had the considerable support of the Horde of Gold of which they proclaimed vassal, whereas Tver revolted several times against the Mongolian oppressors and sought to be combined with the Lithuania. At the end of the 14th century Moscow gained this competition, by pushing back several Lithuanian invasions and while launching a military campaign against Tver, in which the military forces of all Russian North-East took part. In 1380, the troops of Tver, subjected, took part in the battle of the field of Kulikovo under the command of saint Dimitri de Don, prince of Moscow.

After the foundation of Saint-Pétersbourg in 1703, Tver, halfway between the two capitals, lost all its importance, was emptied of part of its population and became a simple borough. The city, destroyed in 1763 (1768?) by a fire, was rebuilt in the neo-classic style by Catherine II.

Population

Twinning

Be-X-old: Цьвер

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