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The Principality or, from 1253, Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, [a] also known as the Kingdom of Ruthenia or Kingdom of Rus', [2] [b] also Kingdom of Halych–Volhynian [c] was a medieval state in Eastern Europe which existed from 1199 to 1349.
Galicia–Volhynia was created following the death in 1198 [20] or 1199 (and without a recognised heir in the paternal line) of the last Prince of Galicia, Vladimir II Yaroslavich; Roman acquired the Principality of Galicia and united his lands into one state. Roman's successors would mostly use Halych (Galicia) as the designation of their ...
In his 2006 general history of WWII, Niall Ferguson gives the total number of Polish victims in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia as between 60,000 and 80,000. [178] G. Rossolinski-Liebe estimated 70,000–100,000. [179] John P. Himka says that "perhaps a hundred thousand" Poles were killed in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. [8]
The War of the Galician Succession [1] or War for the unification of the Principality of Galician-Volhynia (Russian: Война за объединение Галицко-Волынского княжества; Ukrainian: Війна за об'єднання Галицько-Волинського князівства) sometimes also known as the Second War of the Galician Succession [2] was a ...
Stater coin, of Alexander the Great (336-323 BC) from Trepcza/ n. Sanok. The region has a turbulent history. In Roman times the region was populated by various tribes of Celto-Germanic admixture, including Celtic-based tribes – like the Galice or "Gaulics" and Bolihinii or "Volhynians" – the Lugians and Cotini of Celtic, Vandals and Goths of Germanic origins (the Przeworsk and Púchov ...
The Principality of Volhynia (Ukrainian: Волинське князівство) was a western Kievan Rus' principality founded by the Rurikid prince Vsevolod in 987 centered in the region of Volhynia, straddling the borders of modern-day Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland.
This article presents the historiography of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, as presented by historians in Poland and Ukraine after World War II. Beginning in March 1943, and lasting until early 1945, a violent ethnic cleansing operation against Poles – conducted primarily by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA ...
Galician–Volhynian Chronicle (in Ukrainian Cyrillic script), 2002 critical edition by Mykola Kotlyar. The Galician–Volhynian Chronicle (GVC [1]) (Ukrainian: Галицько-Волинський літопис, romanized: Halycjko-Volynsjkyj litopys, called "Halicz-Wolyn Chronicle" in Polish historiography), also known as Chronicle of Halych–Volhynia [2] and by other names [a] is a ...