Principality of Galicia-Volhynia

Timeline

1. 1161–1165Przemyśl and Volhynia · VolhyniaYaroslav Osmomysl integrated the Galician and Volhynian lands, strengthening city defenses and church building; the principality was preeminent among the western Rus' states, and contemporaries praised him as a 'half-wise' ruler.
2. 1166–1170Galician frontier · GaliciaThe principality contested the supreme Rus' title with the Grand Principality of Kiev while maintaining with the fractured Polish principalities and Hungary a complex mix of marriage ties and territorial disputes; western Rus' became a zone where multiple powers converged.