Detinets

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Novgorod detinets in Veliky Novgorod, Russia

Detinets (Russian: Детинец) is an ancient Rus' city-fort or central fortified part of a city, similar to the meaning of kremlin (fortification), citadel. The term was used in the Kievan Rus', in Chernihiv,^[1] Novgorod the Great (see Novgorod Detinets),^[2] Kyiv and others.^[3]

Old Russian manuscripts mention detinets in various places of Kievan Rus since the end of the 11th century.^[4] From the 13th to the 14th century detinets was used only in the Russian Pskov-Novgorod region.^[5]

The origin of the term is uncertain. Some derive it from the Old East Slavic word deti – "children", suggesting it was used to hide children and other less able people during the siege.^[6] Polish philologist Lucyjan Malinowski derives the similarly-sounding Polish term dziedziniec – "courtyard", from detinets.^[7]

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