Nobel

Nobel occupies a peninsula on the lake of the same name in the Pripyat valley. Known in medieval chronicles as Nebl, it was a centre of the watery borderlands of Polesia. In the sixteenth century its monastery and churches made it a religious centre; a manuscript Gospel was completed for St Nicholas's Church in 1520. A privilege issued in 1524 allowed the monastery's monks to fish in the lake and the Pripyat.