Seweries

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Coat of arms of the Land of Sewerien 1672
The Chernigov-Severia country in the 15th century

Severien or Severien ( Ukrainian Сіверщина Siwerschtschyna , Russian Северщина Severschtschina , Belarusian Севершчына Severschchyna ) is a historical landscape, formerly populated by the Severyan tribe, on the border of northern Ukraine and Southwestern Russian Russia , with the Ukrainian- Southwestern Novhorod border. Other cities were Chernihiv , Putywl , Hluchiw , Lyubetsch , Kursk , Rylsk , Starodub , Trubchevsk , Sevsk , Brjansk and Belgorod .

It is mentioned for the first time in the Nestor Chronicle as a tributary area for the Khazars . Conquered by Oleg of Novgorod for the Kievan Rus at the end of the 9th century , the Principality of Chernigov was formed in 1024 , from which the Principality of Severia split off in 1097 . Both principalities are destroyed by the Mongols in 1223 and incorporated into a common Bryansk principality in 1239 . In 1320 this came to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , from 1503 to the Principality of Moscow . In 1619 it went to Poland , in 1667 back to Russia . In 1919 the area was divided between the Ukrainian and Russian Soviet republics .