city in Belarus
Mstsislaw (Mstsislavl, Polish: Mścislaw) is a town in Mogilev Oblast, Belarus. In the late Middle Ages it was a center of a principality. The city is on the banks of the Sosch River just a few kilometers from the border with Russia.
Understand
editIt is the capital of a rayon in the Mahiljou Oblast. In the Middle Ages it was the center of a principality. It belonged to Poland-Lithuania until the First Partition of Poland in 1772 and then came to tsarist Russia.
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editGet around
editSee
edit- 1 Castle Hill (Гарадзішча «Замкавая Гара»). The original location of the medieval city, now an archaeological site.
- Carmelite church and monastery, probably built in 1654.
- Jesuit Church and College