Slutsk

Slutsk was a principality on the Sluch, formed from a Turov appanage. It joined Lithuania in 1320 and in 1337 lay under the Gediminid ruler Gediminas.

In 1395 Vytautas granted Slutsk to Vladimir Olgerdovich, whose Olelkovich descendants made it a political and cultural centre. The town received Magdeburg rights in 1441; after the princely line died out, the Radziwiłłs inherited it. From the seventeenth century its weavers made famed Slutsk sashes, and in 1793 the Second Partition assigned the town to Russia.