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Volodymyr ( Ukrainian: Володимир ), previously known as Volodymyr-Volynskyi ( Володимир-Волинський) from 1944 to 2021, is a small city in Volyn Oblast, northwestern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative centre of Volodymyr Raion and the center of Volodymyr urban hromada.
A thousand years. The millennium-old history of Volodymyr has been described by many Ukrainian, Polish, and Jewish authors. The oldest mention of the town can be found in the 12th-century Primary Chronicle (also known as the Tale of Bygone Years), which reports that in 988, Prince Volodymyr (Vladimir) Sviatoslavich of Kyiv presented this Volhynian city to his son Vsevolod to rule.
Volodymyr-Volynskyy (vŭl´ədyē´myĬr-vəlyĬn´skyē), Pol. Włodzimierz, Rus. Vladimir-Volynski, city (1989 pop. 38,000), NW Ukraine. It was founded in the 9th cent. and supposedly refounded in 988 by the Grand Duke Vladimir I (Volodymyr I) of Kievan Rus.
Volodymyr-Volynskyi [Volodymyr-Volyns’kyj]. Map: III-5.A city (2001 pop 38,300) on the Luha River and a raion center in Volhynia oblast. One of Ukraine's oldest cities, it is first mentioned in the chronicles under the year 988, as the fortified trading town of Volodymyr and the seat of an eparchy (see Volodymyr-Volynskyi eparchy).
Volodymyr-Volynskyi is a center of the homonymous district in Volyn Region, located in its south-western part, at the North-Western border of the Volyn highland, on the Luga right bank. Its total area makes up 16.05 square kilometers. Read more.
History. The Volodymyr-Volynsky Historical Museum owns one of the oldest collections of Volynian antiquities. The community of Volodymyr-Volynskyi established the museum collection in order to preserve the history of the region and to promote scientific research.
A city on the Luga River (a tributary of the West Bug), Volodymyr Volyns’kyi (Pol., Włodzimierz; Yid., Ludmir; Latinized as Lodomeria) is the district center of Ukraine’s Volyn’ oblast. An important regional center of Volhynia since the tenth century, it passed in 1319 to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , in 1569 to the Polish–Lithuanian ...
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