Detinets

Detinets is an ancient city-fort or central fortified party of a city, similar to the meaning of "kremlin (fortification)". The term was used in the Kievan Rus', in Chernihiv,[1] Novgorod the Great (see Novgorod Kremlin)[2] and others.

The origing of the term is uncertain. Some derive it from the same root as the Russian word deti = children. Others derive it from the similarly-sounding Polish term Dziedziniec for "courtyard".

References

  1. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Science-Research Institute for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ A. I. (Aleksandr Ignat'evich) Semenov, Novgoroskii Kreml (Novgorod: gazeta “Novgorodskaia Pravda,” 1964).
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