Gorodechnya

Gorodechnya belongs to the wooded uplands of the Demena country, between the upper Dnieper and the Oka basin. A district of this name appears among lands granted to Prince Fyodor Vorotynsky in the fifteenth century, when the region lay within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The frontier shifted east and west as Lithuania and Moscow contested these lands; the neighbouring Demena district passed to Moscow under the truce of 1503.