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Pereslavl-Zalessky
Pereslavl-Zalessky is a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, on Lake Pleshcheyevo. Founded by Yuri Dolgoruky in 1152 and named after Pereyaslavl in the south, it was the seat of an appanage principality and the birthplace of Alexander Nevsky. It passed to Moscow in 1302 and is one of the Golden Ring towns, with its white-stone Transfiguration Cathedral of 1152–1157.
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