Gorod (toponymy)

Gorod is a version of the Slavic word meaning "town", "city" or "castle", and is related to the similar grad and horod.

It is preserved in the toponymy of numerous Slavic places:


 * Bely Gorod
 * Belgorod
 * Gorodets (with -ets as the suffix of diminutiveness)
 * Gorodishche (with -ishche as the suffix of augmentation)
 * Ivangorod
 * Kitai-gorod
 * Kitay-Gorod (Metro), cross-platform transfer point of the Moscow Metro
 * Slavgorod
 * Nizhny Novgorod
 * Veliky Novgorod
 * Zvenigorod