Ruś polska – synopsis
The Polish Rus’ – Synopsis
Author(s): Jan Koźbiał Subject(s): History, Cultural history
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Polish Rus’; Principality of Galicia-Volhynia; Ukraine; the second Commonwealth of Poland; Red Ruthenia
Summary/Abstract: The article is aimed at introducing the brief recapitulation of the history ofPolish Rus’. This history begins from Mieszko I of Poland (Red Ruthenia or RedRus’ – that was as a matter of fact the residence of the Polish tribes). Graduallythe Polish dominion (The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland) was stretched outon the Principality of Galicia-Volhynia (during the reign of Casimir the Great),and after the Union of Lublin – on the Volhynia and the rest of territories thatnowadays belong to Ukraine. During the second Rzeczpospolita (The secondCommonwealth of Poland) Polish Rus’ encompassed the Volhynia and the Principalityof Galicia-Volhynia (Galicia – Eastern Małopolska, e.g. Lesser Poland).After 1945 the Polish Rus’ got separated from Poland (except Red Ruthenia orRed Rus’).
Journal: Studia Interkulturowe Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 9
- Page Range: 37-59
- Page Count: 23
- Language: Polish