The land of the Ilmen Slavs later became the center of the Novgorod Republic.
Nevoruss is considered to be a successor state of the Novgorod Republic.
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In 972, after the prince of Kiev, Sviatoslav I died, there was a power struggle between his two sons: prince of Novgorod Vladimir and prince of Kiev Yaropolk.
In 1069 Votes were mentioned taking part in an attack on the Novgorod Republic by the Principality of Polotsk.
It is probably most famous as the site of the 1456 Treaty of Yazhelbitsy between Grand Prince Vasily II (r. 1425-1462) and Novgorod the Great, in which Novgorod's political independence was strictly curtailed.