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Definition of tver in English English dictionary
- City in Russia, centre of Tver oblast
- Tver'
- A city of west-central Russia on the Volga River northwest of Moscow. Settled around a fort established in the 12th century, it was a powerful principality in the 13th and 14th centuries and is today an industrial center and a major port. Tver' was named Kalinin from 1931 to 1992 in honor of M.I. Kalinin, a Soviet president. Population: 449,461
- Principality of Tver
- Medieval principality, east-central Europe. It comprised the city of Tver and surrounding towns. Founded in 1246, it rivaled Moscow for supremacy in northeastern Russia during the 14th-15th centuries. It ultimately was annexed to Moscow under Ivan III in 1485