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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: 1221 births, 1221 deaths, 1221 disestablishments, 1221 establishments, 1221 in Asia, 1221 in Europe, Conflicts in 1221, Alfonso X of Castile, Nizhny Novgorod, Bonaventure, Theodore I Laskaris, Blackfriars, Oxford, Saint Dominic, War of Succession of Champagne, List of state leaders in 1221, Margaret of Provence, Order of Monfrague, John of Tynemouth, Arlon, Rambertino Buvalelli, Berengaria of Portugal, Krnov, Albertet de Sestaro, Militia of the Faith of Jesus Christ, J ky War, Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk, Alix, Duchess of Brittany, Dietrich I, Margrave of Meissen, Hugh XI of Lusignan, Salimbene di Adam, Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford, Theobald II, Count of Bar, Battle of Parwan, William IV, Count of Ponthieu, Baruch ben Samuel, Muhammad II of Khwarezm, Battle of Indus, Abraham of Smolensk, Najmuddin Kubra, Al-Hasan ibn Adi, Walter II de Clifford, Hugh I of Arborea, Battle of Uji, Henry III, Duke of Limburg, Adam of Perseigne, Siege of Tallinn, Henry I of Rodez, Barisone III of Torres, 1221 in poetry, Sheikh Adi ibn Sakhr, Maelruanaidh O Dubhda, Qutb ad-D n Haydar. Excerpt: Nizhny Novgorod (Russian: , IPA: ), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is, with the population of 1,250,600, the fifth largest city in Russia, ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg. It is the economic and cultural center of the vast Volga-Vyatka economic region, and also the administrative center of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and Volga Federal District. From 1932 to 1990, the city was known as Gorky (, IPA: ), after the writer Maxim Gorky who was born there. The city is an important economic, transport and cultural center of the Russian Federation. After the destruction of the Mordvin Inazor Obram administrative centre and hillfort named Obran Osh (Ashli) at the site of future stone Kremlin in 1220, a small Russ...