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Grodno. Eine der Fürnehmbsten Staedte in Litthauen
Augsburg, copperplate, 15.9 x 23.1 cm., drawn after Bodenehr’s “Curioses Staats und Kriegs Theatrum in Polen.” Foreground: 1568 meeting between Ivan the Terrible and Marshal Wołłowicz, in the year Ivan began the 24-year Livonian War.
Grodno (Bel.: Гродна, tr. Hrodna; Rus.: Гродно; Lith.: Gardinas): Founded: late 10th century; first reference: 1127 in the “Ruthenian (Russian) Primary Chronicle
