Treaty of Nöteborg

The Treaty of Nöteborg (Russian Ореховский мир, Swedish Nöteborg treatises, Finnish Pähkinäsaaren rauha ) was born on August 12, 1323 for the first time the border between Sweden and the Republic of Novgorod fixed and so divided the landscape Karelia between these two realms. The fortress Nöteborg (Swedish, Russian Ореховец, Orechowetz ) located on an island in the Neva River in the outflow of Lake Ladoga and is now part of the city Schlüsselburg.

The contract came about through the mediation of German merchants. Yuri I. Daniilowitsch, Grand Prince of Moscow and Prince of Novgorod, renounced it on some of his Karelian possessions. Both powers declared it intends to erect any fortifications along the new border, and Sweden pledged to remain neutral in the conflict between Novgorod and Narva.

The border ran under the contract to the east and north of the city of Viborg on the Karelian Isthmus; The boundary line through the countryside Savo the Gulf of Bothnia was only roughly defined, since he already went through an almost unexplored area.

Only a few years after the conclusion of the contract it has been injured by Sweden, as Swedish settlers on the Gulf of Bothnia penetrated to areas north of the boundary line.

In the Peace of Teusina ( Täyssinä ) the boundary between the rich in 1595 moved further east. They now proceeded east of Savonlinna and Kainuu.