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Toropets
Toropets is a town and the administrative center of Toropetsky District in Tver OblastRussia, located where the Toropa River enters Lake Solomennoye. Population:

History
In 1074, when the town was first mentioned in chronicles, Toropets belonged to the Princes of Smolensk. By 1167, it was large enough to have its own princes. The most famous of its rulers was Mstislav the Bold, whose grandson Alexander Nevsky wed Alexandra of Polotsk in Toropets in 1239.

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