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5 unusual facts about Galich


Abraham of Rostov

Saint Abraham of Rostov was born in the tenth century, to a non-Christian family in Galich, Russia.

Galich

Alexander Ivanovich Galich (1783–1848), Russian philosopher and Latin scholar

Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, a subdivision of the Austrian Empire from 1772 to 1918

Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, a large Ruthenian Duchy which existed in the 13th and 14th centuries

Vasili Ivanovich Shemyachich

Vasili Ivanovich Shemyachich was a grandson of the famous knyaz of Galich, Dmitry Yurievich Shemyaka.


Alexander Ivanovich Galich

Galich was born as Alexander Ivanovich Govorov in 1783 into the family of a deacon in Trubchevsk in Bryansk Oblast.

IOCOM

Founded in 1998 by Kevin Gleason and Michael Galich, and has an advisory board which includes Edward Zander, former Sprint Nextel executive John Garcia and Ian Foster Though based in Chicago, services are offered worldwide.

Ivan Vyrodkov

After the war, in 1557, Vyrodkov built a fortress and a harbor at the mouth of the Narva River and a fort in Galich.

Mongol invasion of Rus'

Thereupon Batu Khan divided his army into smaller units, which ransacked fourteen cities of modern-day Russia: Rostov, Uglich, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Kashin, Ksnyatin, Gorodets, Galich, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yuriev-Polsky, Dmitrov, Volokolamsk, Tver, and Torzhok.


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