Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 1299, Maximus (of Greek origin), the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus', eventually moved the seat of the Metropolitanate from Kiev to Vladimir on the Klyazma, keeping the title. Since 1320, the city was the site of a new Catholic bishopric, when Henry, a Dominican friar, was appointed the first missionary Bishop of Kyiv .
Kyiv (also Kiev) [a] is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River . As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2,952,301, [ 2 ] making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. [ 11 ]
c. 1200–1204 – Roman the Great, prince of Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, captured Kyiv from the grand prince of Kyiv. [5] According to Magocsi (2010), this happened in 1200; [5] according to Katchanovski et al. (2013) in 1203; [6] according to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine (1993) in 1204.
Kiev remained the core of the country and was the centre of spiritual life with the office of the Metropolitan of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Kiev. Following the death of Mstislav I of Kiev in 1132, the semi-autonomous states were de facto independent and so led to the emergence of the Principality of Kiev as a separate state.
Kiev is the traditional English name for the city, [10] [13] [14] but because of its historical derivation from the Russian name, Kiev lost favor with many Western media outlets after the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014. [15] The city was known by various names in history.
The Grand Prince of Kiev (sometimes grand duke) was the title of the monarch of Kievan Rus', residing in Kiev (modern Kyiv) from the 10th to 13th centuries. [citation needed] In the 13th century, Kiev became an appanage principality first of the grand prince of Vladimir and the Mongol Golden Horde governors, and later was taken over by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Kiev City Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Kiev Governorate (1708–1764) Kiev Psalter of 1397; Kiev Viceroyalty; Kiev Voivodeship; Principality of Kiev; Kobyzewicz family; Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv; Kyiv Archive Museum of Transitional Period; Kyiv City Duma building; Kyiv City Teacher's House; Kyiv History Museum
The earliest source about the history of the Dnieper Ukraine region is the Tale of Bygone Years (or Primary Chronicle), written no earlier than the 11th century. In its 'legendary' part, it narrates the Rus' raid on Constantinople and the formation of a state centered in Kiev during the second half of the 9th