Volhynians

The Volhynians ( Ukrainian Волиняни , Russian Волыняне ) were a tribal association of the Eastern Slavs , who was named after them field at the end of the first millennium and the beginning of the 2nd millennium Volyn (the upper reaches of the Pripyat and along the Western Bug inhabited).

Their neighbors were in the south of the White Croats and Buschanen , in the West, the West Slavic Vistulans , in the north dregovichs and in the east the Drevlianians .

history

The tribal name probably derives from the Wolyn castle on the western bank of the western bow (today near the Polish village of Gródek in the powiat Hrubieszowski on the border with Ukraine ).

The Nestor Chronicle reports in the 12th century that the Wolhynians lived in an area that was previously inhabited by Dulebs . She also reports that the Volyn took part in the Kiev campaign against Byzantium in 907 . 956 are mentioned by the Arab traveler al-Mas'udi Wolinana . At least since this time, areas of the Wolhynians east of the western bow belonged to the Kievan Rus . In 981 Vladimir von Kiev conquered the Tscherwener Burgenland west of the Bug. In 988 he hands over the Vladimir-Wolynski castle, which is obviously named after him, east of the bow to his son. In 1018 Volhynia was conquered by the Polish Duke Bolesław Chrobry , and in 1031 it went back to the Kievan Rus. In the following years, Wolodymyr-Wolynskyj became the seat of the Principality of Volhynia , and since 1199 of the Principality of Halych-Volhynia .

See also

• Wolhyniendeutsche (German Wolhynians)
• Volyn Governorate
• Volyn Oblast

literature

• Yevgeny Zhukov and others: Sovetskaya istoritscheskaja enziklopedija: Tom 3 . Sowetskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1963, col. 679 (Russian).