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The Ruthenian lion on the rock was used as the official emblem of the Ruthenian voivodeship until 1772, before the second division of Poland, and was often called the Halychynian lion. Along with it, until the sixteenth century, the old traditional image of the Ruthenian lion on the blue shield was used as the land and voivodeship coat of arms ...
The Ruthenian lion first appears in the seal of the Ruthenian king Yurii I, dated to the beginning of the XIV century. There is an image of a monarch on a throne, and on the reverse, an armed horseman holding a shield with a lion on his hind leg, an example of equestrian seals common in Europe at the time. On the seal, there is an inscription ...
The lion was a traditional symbol of the city throughout the ages. The first such depictions occurred on 13th-century seals of dukes Andrew and Leo of Volhynia, rulers of medieval Ruthenian duchy of Halych-Volynia. The earliest known emblem of the city features a lion passant through a city gate pointed with three towers. It was featured on a ...
The griffin in the coat of arms symbolizes the Belz Voivodeship, while the Ruthenian lion symbolizes the Ruthenian Voivodeship.Both of those voivodeships were part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, from 15th to 18th century, and were located where, in modern times, the Subcarpathian Voivodeship is located.
Ruthenian lion, which was used as a representative coat of arms of Ruthenia during the Council of Constance in the 15th century In Kievan Rus', the name Rus' , or Rus'ka zemlia (land of Rus'), described the lands between Kiev , Chernihiv and Pereyaslav , corresponding to the tribe of Polanians , which started to identify themself as Rus ...
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The horseman was featured on the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, on the Seal of King Yuri II Boleslav with the Ruthenian lion on the coat of arms, on the Mykhailo Hrushevsky's proposal of the coat of arms of the Ukrainian People's Republic, and other Ukrainian coats of arms. Coats of arms in Ukraine which features a horseman
Ruthenians of Kholm in 1861.Ruthenians of Podlachia in the second half of the 19th century.. In the interbellum period of the 20th century, the term rusyn (Ruthenian) was also applied to people from the Kresy Wschodnie (the eastern borderlands) in the Second Polish Republic, and included Ukrainians, Rusyns, and Lemkos, or alternatively, members of the Uniate or Greek Catholic Churches.