Koporye
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Koporye (; Finnish: Kaprio; ) is a historic village (selo) in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located about west of St. Petersburg and south of the Koporye Bay of the Baltic Sea. Its population in 2017 was 1,603.
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- Koporye
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- Копорье
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- Selo
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- Entrance to Koporye Fortress
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- Russian town.area_km2
- 408.9
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Koporye (; Finnish: Kaprio; ) is a historic village (selo) in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located about west of St. Petersburg and south of the Koporye Bay of the Baltic Sea. Its population in 2017 was 1,603.
== History == The first wooden fortress on the coast of the Koporye Bay was built by the Teutonic Knights in the winter of 1240, only to be destroyed by Alexander Nevsky the next year. The second fortress was built in stone by Alexander's son Dmitry Alexandrovich in 1280. Enraged by the prince's independence, the Novgorodians razed the fortress two years later.
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