Gorod

Gorod may refer to:

  • Gord (archaeology), a Slavic word meaning "town" that appears in numerous Slavic toponyms - see Gorod (toponymy), Horod, or Grad (toponymy)
  • Gorod (band), a French technical death metal band

    • See also

  • Gulyay-gorod, a mobile "walled town" used for defense on the featureless steppe
  • Gord (disambiguation)
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    Gord (archaeology)

    A gord is a medieval Slavonic fortified settlement, also occasionally known as a burgwall or Slavic burgwall after the German term for such sites. The ancient peoples were known for building wooden fortified settlements. The reconstructed Centum-satem isogloss word for such a settlement is g'herdh, gordъ, related to the Germanic *gard and *gart (as in Stuttgart etc.). This Proto-Slavic word (*gordъ) for town or city, later differentiated into grad (Cyrillic: град), gard,gorod (Cyrillic: город), etc.

    Similar strongholds were built during the late Bronze and early Iron Ages by the Lusatian culture (ca. 1300 BC – 500 BC), and later in the 7th - 8th centuries BC in modern-day Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic and eastern Germany. These settlements were usually founded on strategic sites such as hills, riverbanks, lake islands or peninsulas.

    A typical gord was a group of wooden houses, built either in rows or in circles, surrounded by one or more rings of walls made of earth and wood, a palisade and/or moats. Some gords were ring-shaped, with a round, oval or occasionally polygonal fence or wall surrounding a hollow. Others, built on a natural hill or a man-made mound, were cone-shaped. Those with a natural defense on one side, such as a river or lake, were usually horseshoe-shaped.

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    Gorod (toponymy)

    Gord (archaeology) is a version of the Slavic word meaning town, city or castle, and is related to the similar Grad (toponymy) and Horod.

    It is preserved in the toponymy of numerous Slavic places:

  • Bely Gorod
  • Belgorod
  • Kitai-gorod
  • Kitay-Gorod (Metro), cross-platform transfer point of the Moscow Metro
  • Novgorod
  • Gorodets
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