Principality of Kholm (Poland)

Kholmskaya ( Kholmskaya Rus or Zabuzhskaya Rus ) is a historical region from the 13th - early 20th centuries on the left bank of the Western Bug with the center of the town of Kholm (now Chelm ). Part of the Chervonnaya Rus.

The so-called Cherven cities Vladimir I Svyatoslavich annexed to Kievan Rus in 981. In 1018 they were won by Boleslaw I the Brave, from 1031 they were returned to the Old Russian State Yaroslav the Wise , where they became part of the Volyn and Galicia-Volyn principality. The structure of this principality included most of Kholmskaya.

After the death of Daniel of Halych in 1264, Holmishchyna was singled out for an [apanage]] principality, then returned to the power of the Galician prince (see Yurii Lvovich ). In the XIV century, the lands of Kholmsk were transferred to the Polish Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which then merged. The hill became the center of the Kholm land as part of the Russian province