Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
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The Principality or, from 1253, Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, also known as the Kingdom of Ruthenia or Kingdom of Rus', was a medieval state in Eastern Europe which existed from 1199 to 1349. Its terri
The Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia ("Principality of Halych-Volynia") during the years 1245–1349
Leo, Ruthenian prince, depicted against the background of the city of Leopolis (modern Lviv)
Saint Pantaleon Church, Shevchenkove, 1194
Coats of arms belonging to units from different lands of the Polish Crown which fought at the Battle of Grunwald, including the emblem of Lviv Land (2nd from right in upper row)
Ruthenian Voivodeship
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The Ruthenian Voivodeship was a voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1434 until the First Partition of Poland in 1772, with its center in the city of Lwów. Together with a number of
Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
…Galicia in 1349, Polish king Casimir III the Great adopted the title of King of Poland and Ruthenia, and in 1434 the territory was transformed into the Ruthenian Voivodeship (Latin: Palatinatus Russiae), with the last remnants of the region's legal autonomy being abolished in 1506. Volhynia, which came under control of the…
Lwów, capital of the voivodeship, in the 17th century