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Turov
Turov is a small town on the Pripyat River in Gomel region, southern Belarus, and one of the oldest towns in the country. First mentioned in the Primary Chronicle under the year 980, it was the seat of a principality of Kievan Rus' and of a bishopric whose most famous bishop was the 12th-century preacher Cyril of Turov. Excavations have uncovered the foundations of a 12th-century church.
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