![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, these tribes came together during the beginning of the 9th century to try and form a negotiated settlement to end military aggression between each other. Novgorod was populated by various Slavic, Finnic and Baltic tribes that were constantly at war with one another for supremacy. There is a theory that in fact it was not Novgorod as misinterpreted by later chroniclers (as stated by dendrochronology, Novgorod was founded only in the middle of the 10th century), but Nevo Gardas – Viking settlements on Lake Ladoga, as in one of Nestor's chronicles from the 12th century he mentions a lake called "the Great Nevo", a clear link to the Neva River and, possibly furthermore, to Finnish nevo "sea" or neva "bog, quagmire". In the middle of the 9th century Nevogardas was a name used to describe Viking staging posts on the trade route from the Baltic Sea to the Byzantine Empire. ![]()
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