Propoysk

Propoysk stands where the Pronya joins the Sozh, a river junction in the eastern lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The chronicles mention it in 1136 as Prupoy; later forms of the name included Proposhensk and Propolsk. It belonged to Mstsislaw Voivodeship under Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Russo-Polish War of 1654–1667 badly damaged the town, which passed to Russia in the first partition of the Commonwealth in 1772.