Principality of Belz

Belz Principality ← ← Alex Volhynia.svg 1170 - 1462

Flag of None.svg → Coat of Arms of Belz Principality.svg The coat of arms of Belzsky principality Capital	Belz Religion	Orthodoxy Form of government	monarchy prince Duchy of Belz - Western Russian specific principality, which arose in 1170 with the center in the town of Belz from 1366 - flax Polish kingdom.

== Territory of Belz The territory developed in the late 10th - early 11th centuries with a center in the city of Belz, which was conquered by Yaroslav the Wise from Poland in 1030 and incorporated into Kievan Rus. It is part of Pobuzhzhya, that is, part of the basin of the Western Bug. Although the territory of Belz land is difficult to distinguish in unambiguous boundaries of chronicle sources, the most northern town it was Vsevolozh and south - Buzhsk.

Principality of Belz
The Belzian principality existed in the XII - XV centuries in the valley of the Western Bug River. The name comes from the center of the principality, the city of Belz. The Belz Principality arose around 1170 as a result of the feudal fragmentation of the Volyn principality. The first prince was the son of Mstislav Izyaslavich Vsevolod. In 1240 the principality was ruined by the Mongol-Tatars. The Belzian principality was at first in vassal dependence on the Volyn principality and the Galicia-Volyn principality, in 1234 it was liquidated, in 1340 - 1377 the territory became part of the Lithuanian principality , since 1388 - in vassal dependence on Mazovia.

In 1462, the Kingdom of Poland annexed the Belz Principality, turning it into the Belz province, which was part of the Commonwealth until 1772