Novohrad Volyns kyi

Novohrad Volyns kyi is a town in the Zhytomyr Oblast of northern Ukraine. Originally referred to as Zvyahel, the city was renamed in 1795 after annexation of territories of Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth by means of the Russian Empire soon after the third Partition of Poland. It serves as the administrative center of Novohrad Volynskyi Raion even though administratively it does no longer belong to the raion and is included one by one as a metropolis of oblast importance. The city is placed on the principle course to Kiev close to its crossing at the Sluch River. The town turned into referred to inside the Galician Volhynian Chronicle underneath the year of 1256 as the metropolis of Zvyahel.

The original agreement turned into an Old Russian metropolis of Bolokhiv Land placed at the proper bank of Sluch. In 1257 it changed into razed through Daniel of Galicia. The subsequent citing of the settlement is discovered in 1432 as a rebuilt one on the left bank upstream from the original site. Since 14^th century it belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania owned by using Zvyahelski princely own family. In 1501 to 1554 the city belonged to Ostrogski princely family. In 1507 Konstanty Ostrogski built here a fortress.