Principality of Navahrudak

Summary

The Principality of Navahrudak or Novogrudok was one of the appanage principalities of Black Ruthenia, emerging just before the end of Kievan Rus'. Its capital was Navahrudak, one of the centres of the region of Poniemnie or Panyamonne. It was formed some time before the 1220s. For some time in the 13th and 14th centuries, it was the subject of struggle between the Gediminid Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Romanovychi Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia (Ruthenia). In the 1390s, the principality was abolished and incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.