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Europe · High and late Middle Ages

Principality of Halych

drawn on the map 1147–1187, 1192–1201

Centered on Halych on the Dniester. Rose to prominence under Yaroslav Osmomysl ("Eight-Minds," r. 1153–1187), praised in the Tale of Igor's Campaign for his wealth and reach.

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Shown on the map
1147–1187, 1192–1201 (2 periods)
Peak area
106k km²
Region
Europe

Overview

Centered on Halych on the Dniester. Rose to prominence under Yaroslav Osmomysl ("Eight-Minds," r. 1153–1187), praised in the Tale of Igor's Campaign for his wealth and reach. Roman the Great (Mstislavich) united Halych with Volhynia in 1199, creating the dominant power of southwestern Rus'.

Common questions

What was the Principality of Halych?
Centered on Halych on the Dniester. Rose to prominence under Yaroslav Osmomysl ("Eight-Minds," r. 1153–1187), praised in the Tale of Igor's Campaign for his wealth and reach.
When is the Principality of Halych shown on the map?
The border data draws the Principality of Halych 1147–1187, 1192–1201, in 2 separate periods. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
How large was the Principality of Halych?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Principality of Halych covered about 106,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.

Sources

This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, academic works (John Fine on the Balkans, Halperin and Martin on Muscovy, Rady and Veszprémy on Hungary) and, for a few entries, the medieval Livonian Chronicle of Henry itself. The article this entry is anchored on:

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This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made

Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.

Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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