Verba

Verba lies in the country east of the Desna, between forests and the settlements of Severia. Burial mounds near the village belong to a settlement of the Rus' period, showing the long history of habitation here. In the Cossack Hetmanate Verba belonged to the Ponornytsia company of the Chernihiv regiment, before the regimental system gave way to new provincial administration in the late eighteenth century.