Bronnitsa

Bronnitsa lies in the wider Novgorod country of northwestern Russia. Veliky Novgorod became the centre of a republic in which princes governed alongside the veche and the posadnik. Its merchants traded with other Rus' lands and the Hanseatic world, and its networks extended north and east through forest country. Moscow absorbed Novgorod in 1478, ending the republic; Novgorod Land continued as an administrative unit into the eighteenth century.