Great Perm
Greater Perm or just Perm , Latinized Permia (Russian Пермь Великая) was a medieval Komi principality, the name of which was later used as a landscape designation.
A relationship with Bjarmaland in the Nordic sagas is obvious, but uncertain. The wisu of contemporary Arabic sources could also mean Greater Perm.
The area was on the upper Kama and includes areas in what is now the Perm region and the Komi Republic . It had close relations with the Permians on the Wytschegda (also called Little Perm ). Both were tributaries to the Novgorod Republic . In the 14th century the area was Christianized by Stefan of Perm and came under the influence of Moscow more and more . Most recently the prince's seat was probably in Cherdyn .
In 1451, a royal house came to power as vassals of Moscow, who carried the title of Prince Wymski and Velikopermsky and, despite their formal dependence, attempted a rocking policy between Moscow, Novgorod and Kazan . In 1472 the area was finally subjugated by a Moscow vassal army, in whose ranks there were also Wymski princes. Prince Mikhail Velikopermsky was captured but soon released and ruled the area as Moscow's governor. His son Matfej was finally deposed in 1505.
As a landscape designation for the area on the upper Kama, the name lasted until the 18th century, the south belonged to the domain of the Stroganovs . The name Perm was then used for the city founded in 1723.
literature
- W. Oborin. The Settlement and Developing of Ural in Late Eleventh - Early Seventeenth Centuries . Irkutsk University, 1990.