Izori

Izori stood beside Lake Beloye in the wooded country of the Vodskaya pyatina of Novgorod. The village appears in the land register of 1500 within the Nikolsky Butkovsky churchyard district. The same name was borne by several settlements in Novgorod's lands; its possible connection with the Izhora people has been discussed by scholars. Here the lake and surrounding forests formed the setting of a small rural community under Novgorod's old territorial divisions.