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Tver, Principality of (sh)




Medieval principality, east-central Europe.

It comprised the city of Tver and surrounding towns. Founded in 1246, it rivaled Moscow for supremacy in northeastern Russia during the 14th-15th centuries. It ultimately was annexed to Moscow under Ivan III in 1485.