Qualla: Battle of Shelon https://qualla.com/battle-of-shelon en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:35 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Shelon https://qualla.com/battle-of-shelon Battle of Shelon: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-shelon/ Novgorod the Great had governed itself for more than three hundred years. In its central square, citizens gathered at the ringing of a bell — the veche, an assembly that elected princes, voted on war and peace, and could exile officials who displeased it. By the morning of 14 July 1471, all of that was running out of time. On the left bank of the Shelon River, southwest of the city, two Russian armies stumbled into each other almost by accident. Two hours later, one of medieval Europe's most remarkable republics had been broken in the field.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/m/g/battle-of-shelon-wp/udmg-battle-of-shelon-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Shelon: A Free City in a Hardening World https://qualla.com/battle-of-shelon/ Medieval Novgorod was strange and beautiful. Where the rest of Rus was settling into hereditary princely rule, Novgorodians elected and dismissed their princes, ran their own foreign policy, traded with Hanseatic merchants in their own riverside warehouses, and made decisions in ...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/m/g/battle-of-shelon-wp/udmg-battle-of-shelon-a-free-city-in-a-hardening-world.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Shelon: The Treaty Behind the Battle https://qualla.com/battle-of-shelon/ The immediate cause was a piece of paper. In 1456 Novgorod had signed the Treaty of Yazhelbitsy, which limited the city's diplomatic freedom and put the Grand Prince of Moscow at the top of its court system. By the late 1460s a faction in Novgorod, led by the formidable boyaress ...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/m/g/battle-of-shelon-wp/udmg-battle-of-shelon-the-treaty-behind-the-battle.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Shelon: An Accidental Encounter https://qualla.com/battle-of-shelon/ The Shelon flows west into Lake Ilmen, and the Muscovite army under Prince Daniil Kholmsky was advancing along its banks toward Novgorod from the southwest. About thirty kilometers from the lake, near the modern town of Soltsy, his roughly five thousand men ran into a Novgorodian...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/m/g/battle-of-shelon-wp/udmg-battle-of-shelon-an-accidental-encounter.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Shelon: What the Numbers Cannot Say https://qualla.com/battle-of-shelon/ Muscovite chronicles claimed more than twelve thousand Novgorodians killed and two thousand taken prisoner. Modern historians treat these figures cautiously. Novgorod itself probably held only forty thousand people, though the army drew on a much larger rural population. The size...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/m/g/battle-of-shelon-wp/udmg-battle-of-shelon-what-the-numbers-cannot-say.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Shelon: A Quiet River, a Loud Silence https://qualla.com/battle-of-shelon/ The Shelon today runs through a flat, lightly populated landscape of birch forests, drainage canals, and small farming villages in Novgorod Oblast. Soltsy is a sleepy district town with a Soviet-era airbase nearby. The exact battlefield has never been fixed; archaeologists place ...

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