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Halych (Ukrainian: Галич [ˈɦɑlɪtʃ]; Romanian: Halici; Polish: Halicz; Russian: Галич, romanized: Galich; German: Halytsch, Halitsch or Galitsch; Yiddish: העליטש, romanized: Heylitsh) is a historic city on the Dniester River in western Ukraine.
The Principality of Halych (Ukrainian: Галицьке князівство, romanized: Halytske kniazivstvo; Old East Slavic: Галицкоє кънѧжьство, romanized: Galickoje kǔnęžǐstvo), or Principality of Halychian Rus ', was a medieval East Slavic principality, and one of the main regional states within the political scope ...
Principality of Halychyna (Galicia) / Halych-Volynia (Galicia-Volhynia) (Rus)AD 1142 - 1349. The ancient region of Galicia today is divided between south-eastern Poland and western Ukraine, being bordered to the east by the Pripet Marshes (now in Belarus ).
Today Halych is a small (7 thouthand people) and cosy town at the confluence of the river Dniester in Lukva. But once it was the capital of one of the largest ancient principalities and one of the greatest cities on the territory of today’s Western Ukraine.
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Ancient Halych is the National Architecture-Historical Preserve located in the western Ukrainian settlements of Halych, Krylos, Shevchenkove, Bilshivtsi, and Zalukva. The site includes landmarks of 11th–17th centuries in ancient Halych and its surroundings.
Roman the Great united the principalities of Halych and Volhynia at the turn of the 13th century. Following the destruction wreaked by the Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' (1239 to 1241), Prince Daniel of Galicia and other princes of Rus' pledged allegiance to Batu Khan of the Golden Horde in 1246.
The Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia or Galicia-Vladimir, was a principality in post-Kievan Rus' in the late twelfth century and existed until the middle of the fourteenth century. It is also called Galicia-Volynia, Halych-Volhynia, Galicia-Volyn, and Galich-Volyn.
