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Belgorod () is a city and the administrative center of Belgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Seversky Donets River just north of the border with Ukraine. Population: ==History== The name ''Belgorod'' in Russian literally means "a white city", being a compound of "" (''bely'', "white, light") and "" (''gorod'', "town, city"). The city was thus named after the region being rich in limestone. Etymologically, it corresponds to other Slavic city names of identical meaning: ''Belgrade'', ''Belogradchik'', ''Białogard'', ''Biograd'', ''Bilhorod'', ''Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi'' etc. The settlement was first mentioned in 1237, when it was ravaged by the hordes of Batu Khan. It is unclear whether this Belgorod was located at the same place where the current city is. In 1596, it was re-founded by the order of Feodor Ioannovich as one of numerous forts set up to defend Southern borders from the Crimean Tatars. In the 17th century it suffered repeatedly from Tatar incursions, against which there was built (from 1633 to 1740) an earthen wall, with twelve forts, extending upwards of 200 miles from the Vorskla to the Don, and called the Byelgorod line. In 1666, an archiepiscopal see was established in the town. After the Russian border was moved further south following the annexation of eastern Ukraine to Russia, the fortress fell in disrepair and the town was assigned to Kursk Governorate. Peter the Great visited it on the eve of the Battle of Poltava, and a dragoon regiment was stationed in the town until 1917. Ioasaph of Belgorod, an 18th-century bishop, became widely venerated as a miracle worker and was glorified as a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1911. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Belgorod」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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