appanege

Updated: June 24, 2025

This word signifies the New Castle; of this name there are two cities and provinces in European Russia, Novogorod proper, and Nisney Novogorod: The former is the one here meant. This is near Wilna in Lithuania. Forst. I imagine that Slonym is here meant; formerly a place of note, and which used to be the appanege of one of the Lithuanian princes. Forst.

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