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    A posadnik (Russian: посадник, pl. посадники, posadniki) was a representative of the prince in some towns during the times of Kievan Rus', and later the...
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    elect and dismiss princes at its own will. The veche also elected the posadnik, who was the chief executive of the city, and from 1156, the archbishop...
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    located between Kyushu and Korea. On 13 March 1861, the Russian corvette Posadnik (Посадник, 1856), captained by Nicolai Birilev, arrived in Tsushima island...
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    veche and the posadniks in 1483–1484 led to the execution of one posadnik and to the confiscation of property of three other posadniks who fled to Moscow...
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  • Nauru) Russian: Boyarin Dyak Knyaz (and Veliky Knyaz) Namestnik Okolnichy Posadnik Voyevoda German: Burggraf Graf Freigraf Landgraf Markgraf Pfalzgraf Reichsgraf...
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  • "stadtholder" is posadnik; the term sometimes occurs as "stadtholder" in English-language literature. Although there were such legendary posadniks as Gostomysl...
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    Drevlians (990–1015) Anna Porphyrogenita Theophana, a wife of Novgorod posadnik Ostromir, a grandson of semi-legendary Dobrynya (highly doubtful is the...
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  • vows). Vasilii's parish church in Kholop Street was rebuilt in 1350 by the Posadnik (mayor) Iurii Ivanovich That church apparently burned in 1352, the year...
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    Klas Horn was originally the Kazarski-class torpedo gunboat Posadnik of the Imperial Russian Navy. One of three built for the Russian Baltic Fleet, Posednik...
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    local elites, the boyars, took control of the city and the offices of posadnik and tysyatsky became elective. The veche (public assembly) played a not...
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