Nowogród [nɔˈvɔɡrut] is a small town in northeastern Poland, located about 13 kilometres (8 miles) away from the city of Łomża , Łomża County , Podlaskie Voivodeship , with 1,998 inhabitants (2004). It is centered on the area known as Skansen Kurpiowski which is an open-air museum , with several examples of mostly 19th century architecture from the region of Kurpie . The museum is dedicated to local Kurpie culture and is a popular folk tourist attraction. It was established by Adam Chętnik in 1927, and now features over 3000 items.
24-561: The river Narew flows through the town and has a myriad of views from the hills amongst it. The town's landmark is a World War II tank that stands overlooking the Narew river from atop a hill. While contemporary Nowogród lies on a hill along the Narew river, the ancient gord was located at the confluence of the Narew and the Pisa . In late Middle Ages , Nowogrod used to be one of the most important towns of
48-595: A brick castle, built in the location of a wooden construction. The castle became one of residences of the Dukes of Mazovia. Nowogrod received town charter in 1427. It was a royal town , administratively located in the Łomża County in the Łomża Land in the Masovian Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province . It enjoyed a number of privileges , especially during the period known as Polish Golden Age , when it
72-566: A river overgrown with bushes', Polish bugaj 'bushes or woods in a river valley or on a steep river bank', and Latvian bauga 'marshy place by a river'. Traditionally (e.g., by the drafters of the Curzon Line ), the Bug River has been considered the ethnographic border between the East and West as well as the border between Orthodox (Ukrainians, Belarusians) and Catholic (Poles) peoples. The Bug
96-570: A total length of 774 kilometres (481 mi). A tributary of the Narew , the Bug forms part of the border between Belarus and Poland for 178 kilometres (111 mi) and part of the border between Ukraine and Poland for 185 kilometres (115 mi). The Bug is connected with the Dnieper by the Dnieper–Bug Canal . Out of its 38,712 square kilometres (14,947 sq mi) drainage basin , half
120-495: Is a tributary of the river Vistula . The Narew is one of Europe's few braided rivers , the term relating to the twisted channels resembling braided hair. Around 57 kilometres (35 mi) of the river flows through western Belarus . The name of the river is from a Proto-Indo-European root *nr primarily associated with water (compare Neretva , Neris , Ner and Nur ) or from a Lithuanian language verb nerti associated primarily with diving and flood . The portion of
144-752: Is in Poland, just over a quarter in Belarus, and slightly under a quarter in Ukraine. According to Zbigniew Gołąb , the Slavic hydronym Bug as *bugъ / *buga derives from the Proto-Indo-European verbal root *bheug- (with cognates in old Proto-Germanic *bheugh- etc. with the meaning 'bend, turn, move away'), with the hypothetical original meaning 'pertaining to a (river) bend', and derivatives in Russian búga 'low banks of
168-475: Is in Poland. Somewhat more than a quarter, 11,400 square kilometres (4,400 sq mi) or 29%, is in Belarus, and a bit under a quarter, 8,700 square kilometres (3,400 sq mi) or 22% lies in Ukraine. The climate of the Bug basin is temperate . The basin experiences annual high-water levels during spring flooding due to thawing snow, after which a low flow period starts and lasts until October or mid-November. Occasional summer floods often occur in
192-645: Is sometimes referred to as a Polish Thermopylae in Polish culture. On September 17, 1939, the USSR invaded Poland. By 28 September, the Soviet Army had reached the line of the rivers Narew, Bug River, Vistula and San – completing the division of Poland as negotiated in advance. Western Bug The Bug or Western Bug is a major river in Central Europe that flows through Belarus (border), Poland , and Ukraine , with
216-450: The Duchy of Mazovia . It was the seat of a royal castellany . The history of the gord of Nowogród dates back to the 9th century, as archaeologists found several objects, such as axes and tools, which date back to that period. Some time probably in the 12th century, the gord was moved on the high bank of the Narew, and at that time it was probably named Nowogrod. By early 14th century, it already
240-632: The Hrodna Voblast of Belarus . The Narew is the fifth longest Polish river . On August 23, 1939, the Soviet Union and Germany signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact , agreeing to divide Poland along the Narew, Vistula (Wisła), and San rivers. On September 6, 1939, Polish military forces attempted to use the Narew as a defense line against German attack during the German invasion of Poland . This
264-499: The 15th century. Burned and destroyed several times, the church was renovated in 1980-82. There also is a cemetery of Polish soldiers who fell in the Polish-Soviet war of 1920, and a monument dedicated to them in 1923. Narew The Narew ( [ˈnarɛf] ; Belarusian : Нараў , romanized : Naraŭ ; Lithuanian : Narevas or Naruva ) is a 499-kilometre (310 mi) river primarily in north-eastern Poland . It
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#1732868994658288-677: The Bug, a few kilometers from the Vysokaye in Kamenets District of the Brest Region , is the westernmost point of Belarus . It is also connected with the Dnieper via the Mukhavets , a right-bank tributary, by the Dnieper-Bug Canal . The total basin area of the Bug is 38,712 square kilometres (14,947 sq mi) of which half, 19,239 square kilometres (7,428 sq mi) or, 50%,
312-524: The Bugonarew was often considered part of the Bug river and the Narew a right tributary of the Bug. On December 27, 1962, Prime Minister Józef Cyrankiewicz abolished the name Bugonarew soon after the Zegrze Reservoir had been constructed. Since then the river Bug has officially been considered part of the river Narew's system, with the Bug being a left tributary of the Narew (by this classification,
336-638: The River Narew is a right tributary of the River Vistula). The name Bugonarew however is still used, especially by the inhabitants of local towns, such as Pułtusk. The Narew flows through the geographical region of Europe known as the Wysoczyzny Podlasko – Bialoruskie (English: Plateau of Podlasie and Belarus) located within the Podlaskie Voivodeship and Masovian Voivodeship of Poland and
360-557: The border between the Masovian and Podlaskie Voivodeships . It joins the Narew at Serock , a few kilometers upstream of the artificial Zegrze Lake . This part of the Narew between the confluence and the Vistula is sometimes referred to as Bugo-Narew but on December 27, 1962, the Prime Minister of Poland's act abolished the name "Bugo-Narew", soon after Zegrze Lake was completed. On
384-833: The dividing line between German Wehrmacht and Soviet Red Army zones specified in a secret clause of the German–Soviet Frontier Treaty of 28 September 1939 following the September 1939 invasion of Poland in the Second World War . The Bug is a left tributary of the Narew . It flows from the Lviv Oblast in the west of Ukraine northwards into the Volyn Oblast , before passing along the Ukraine-Polish and Polish-Belarusian border and into Poland, where it follows part of
408-433: The headlands, where mountains influence favorable flash-flood conditions. In Autumn the water level increases are inconsiderable; in some years they do not happen at all. During the winter the river can have temporary ice-outs that sometimes provoke ice jams, causing an increase of the level up to 2 metres (6.6 ft). The resultant water levels are changeable due to the instability of ice cover. Significant floods during
432-446: The last 60 years in Belarus were registered in 1958, 1962, 1967, 1971 and 1974. The largest spring flood was observed in 1979, when the maximum water discharge was 19.1 cubic metres per second on 24 March 1979, at the village of Chersk ; 166 cubic metres per second near the village of Tyukhinichi ( Lyasnaya river) on 31 March 1979; and 269 cubic metres per second near Brest on 1 April 1979. A similar spring flood occurred in 1999 when
456-503: The river between the junctions with the Western Bug and the Vistula is also known as the Bugonarew, Narwio-Bug, Narwo-Bug, Bugo-Narew, Narwiobug or Narwobug. At the confluence near Zegrze the Bug is 1.6x longer, drains a 1.4x larger basin, and has a slightly greater average discharge (158 m³/s at Wyszków vs 146 m³/s at Pułtusk for the Narew, both ~25 km above the junction). Thus
480-456: The unsuccessful January Uprising , it was deprived of its town charter in 1869, which was eventually restored in 1927. During the German Invasion of Poland , which started World War II in September 1939, heavy fighting between Poles and the advancing Wehrmacht took place here, leaving Nowogród almost completely destroyed. Nowogrod has a Roman Catholic parish church, which dates back to
504-540: Was abandoned the next day in favor of the Bug as German forces had already penetrated the defenses. The Battle of Wizna was fought along the banks of the river between September 7 and September 10, 1939, between the forces of Poland and Germany during the initial stages of Invasion of Poland. Because it consisted of a small force holding a piece of fortified territory against a vastly larger invasion for three days at great cost before being annihilated with no known survivors, Wizna
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#1732868994658528-583: Was an important center of trade, commerce and honey-making. The period of prosperity ended during the Swedish invasion of Poland (1655–1660). The town was ransacked and burned to the ground, never recovering from the destruction. In 1794, during the Kosciuszko Uprising , a battle between Poles and Russians took place near Nowogród. Also, a skirmish took place here during the November Uprising . Following
552-624: Was part of the frontier between the territories occupied by Austria, Russia, and Prussia after the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, the southern half of the eastern border of the Duchy of Warsaw and Lithuanian Provisional Governing Commission (1809–1815), Congress Poland and Russia proper (1815–1867), of the Vistula Land and Russia proper (1867–1913), and of the Regency Kingdom of Poland and BPR (1917–1918). The Bug also formed part of
576-409: Was the seat of a castellany ; on Nowogrod’s stamp from 1320, a Latin inscription Signum Novogrodensis is visible. Since the area of Nowogród was located near the border with Lithuania and Yotvingians , it was frequently raided by the warring neighbours. In 1355, the gord became property of Siemowit III, Duke of Masovia , who in 1375 handed it to his son Janusz I of Warsaw . Janusz I founded here
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