Battle of the Neva

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1. 1240Confluence of the Neva and Izhora rivers (Ust-Izhora) · Neva RiverThe chronicle says the Swedes, together with Norwegians, Sumians and Tivertsians, advanced along the Neva, intending to cut Novgorod's route to the Gulf of Finland and Karelia. Swedish eastward expansion and Novgorod's control of the Karelian fur trade collided here.
2. 1240Confluence of the Neva and Izhora rivers (Ust-Izhora) · Neva RiverAlexander, about nineteen years old, led Novgorod and Ladoga forces in a sudden attack on the landed enemy; the chronicle records a victory. The Swedish commander is traditionally identified as Birger, but modern scholarship is reserved on this; the battle itself is also absent from Swedish sources.
3. 1240Novgorod · NovgorodAlexander gained the epithet 'Nevsky' from this battle. Novgorod did not press westward into Finland or Estonia; that same year a separate theater opened in Livonia, and the decisive battle on Lake Peipus came only two years later.