page_title: Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
hierarchical_section_title: Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
caption_attribution_description: Poloniae et Ungariae, from the Cosmographia of Sebastian MünsterПольша и Венгрия, из космографии Себастьяна Мюнстера.
context_page_description: The Kingdom or Principality of Galicia–Volhynia, also known as the Kingdom of Rus' from 1253, was a state in the regions of Galicia and Volhynia that existed from 1199 to 1349. Its territory was located in modern-day Poland, Ukraine and Slovakia. Galicia was conquered by Prince of Volhynia Roman the Great with the help of Leszek the White of Poland. Roman the Great united the principalities of Halych and Volhynia into a single state. Along with Novgorod and Vladimir-Suzdal, it was one of the three most important powers to emerge from the collapse of Kievan Rus'.
  Following the destruction wreaked by the Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus', Prince Danylo Romanovych was forced to pledge allegiance to Batu Khan of the Golden Horde in 1246. He strove to rid his realm of the Mongol yoke, however, by formally drawing closer to Western Europe. He was crowned "Rex Rusiae" by a papal legate in 1253. He also tried, unsuccessfully, to establish military alliances with other European rulers. The Polish conquest of the kingdom in 1349 ended its vassalage to the Golden Horde.
context_section_description: The Kingdom or Principality of Galicia–Volhynia (Old East Slavic: Галицко-Волинскоє князство; Ukrainian: Галицько-Волинське князівство; Latin: Regnum Galiciae et Lodomeriae), also known as the Kingdom of Rus' (Ukrainian: Королівство Русь, Latin: Regnum Rusiae) from 1253, was a state in the regions of Galicia and Volhynia that existed from 1199 to 1349. Its territory was located in modern-day Poland, Ukraine and Slovakia. Galicia was conquered by Prince of Volhynia Roman the Great with the help of Leszek the White of Poland. Roman the Great united the principalities of Halych and Volhynia into a single state. Along with Novgorod and Vladimir-Suzdal, it was one of the three most important powers to emerge from the collapse of Kievan Rus'.
  Following the destruction wreaked by the Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' (1239 to 1241), Prince Danylo Romanovych was forced to pledge allegiance to Batu Khan of the Golden Horde in 1246. He strove to rid his realm of the Mongol yoke, however, by formally drawing closer to Western Europe. He was crowned "Rex Rusiae" by a papal legate in 1253. He also tried, unsuccessfully, to establish military alliances with other European rulers. The Polish conquest of the kingdom in 1349 ended its vassalage to the Golden Horde. Upon annexing it, Polish King Casimir III the Great adopted the title of King of Poland and Rus', and the territory was transformed into the Palatinate of Rus' in 1434.
  Western Galicia–Volhynia extended between the rivers San and Wieprz in what is now south-eastern Poland, while eastern territories covered the Pripet Marshes (now in Belarus) and the upper reaches of Southern Bug river in modern-day Ukraine. During its time, the kingdom was bordered by Black Rus', the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Principality of Turov-Pinsk, the Principality of Kiev, the Golden Horde, the Kingdom of Hungary, the Kingdom of Poland, the Principality of Moldova and the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights.
caption: Leopol is a center of "Russia" near Podolia on the 1554 map of Sebastian Münster
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