Peresopnytsia is a small village of
Rivne Raion in the
Rivne Oblast,
Ukraine. It belongs to the Verkhivsk rural council and located on Stubly River, a tributary of
Horyn River.
In 11th - 13th centuries it was one of two main cities of Horyn River basin. In the 12th century Peresopnytsia was a capital of the Peresopnytsia principality which was a regional principality of the
Volhynian Principality
The Principality of Volhynia was a western Kievan Rus' principality founded by the Rurik dynasty in 987 centered in the region of Volhynia, straddling the borders of modern-day Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland. From 1069 to 1118, it belonged to Izya ...
.
On 29 August 1561 in Peresopnytsia Monastery of the Blessed Virgin Nativity was finished work on creation of
Peresopnytsia Gospel
The Peresopnytsia Gospel ( uk, Пересопницьке Євангеліє, ''Peresopnytske Yevanheliie''), dating from the 16th century, is one of the most intricate surviving East Slavic manuscripts. It was made between 15 August 1556 and 29 ...
which is today known as the National relic of Ukraine.
Peresopnytsia princes
* 1147-1149
Viacheslav I of Kiev
* 1150-1150 Mstislav, son of
Yuri Dolgorukiy
* 1150-1151
Andrey Bogolyubsky
Andrew I (died 28 June 1174), his Russian name in full, Andrey Yuryevich Bogolyubsky "Andrew made Vladimir the centre of the grand principality and placed a series of his relatives on the now secondary princely throne of Kiev. Later he also com ...
as prince of Peresopnytsia and
Turov
* 1152-1154 Volodymyr, son of Andrei the Good
* 1155-1156
Mstislav II of Kiev
* ...
* 1180-1220 Mstislav the Mute, son of
Yaroslav II of Kiev
* 1225-1229
Vasilko Romanovich
Vasylko Romanovych (1203–1269), Prince of Belz (1207–1269), Prince of Brest (1231–1269), and Prince of Volhynia (1231–1269).
He was the son of Roman the Great, the younger brother of Daniel of Galicia.
Family
Father
*Roman the Great
Bro ...
References
External links
* Pryshchepa, B.
Medieval Peresopnytsia in written and archaeological sources'. Historical Volhynia portal
Villages in Rivne Raion
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