Volhynia - Wikipedia
Volhynia or Volynia (/ voʊˈlɪniə / voh-LIN-ee-ə; see below) is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between southeastern Poland, southwestern Belarus, and north western Ukraine.
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia - Wikipedia
Volhynia was a place of increasingly violent conflict, with Polish police on one side and Western Ukrainian communists supported by many dissatisfied Ukrainian peasants on the other. [citation needed] The communists organized strikes, killed at least 31 suspected police informers in 1935–1936, and assassinated local Ukrainian officials for ...
Volhynia | Polish-Lithuanian rule, Ruthenian culture, Orthodoxy ...
Volhynia, area of northwestern Ukraine that was a principality (10th–14th century) and then an autonomous component of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and was ruled largely by its own aristocracy (after the late 14th century).
Volhynia - Encyclopedia of Ukraine
Volhynia is the meeting ground of two distinct landscapes: the glacial, characteristic of Polisia, and the plateau, characteristic of Podilia. From south to north the following landscape zones appear: (1) the Podolian Upland, (2) Little Polisia, (3) the Volhynia-Kholm Upland, and (4) Volhynian Polisia.
Volhynia massacre - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Volhynia massacre, also known as the Wołyń massacre, was a series of mass murder committed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Українська повстанська армія, УПА, English: UPA) against the Polish minority in Volhynia (/ v oʊ ˈ l ɪ n i ə /), Eastern Galicia between 1943 and 1945.
Volhynia - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Volhynia is a region of Ukraine that is located north of Podolia, south of Polesia, east of the Bug River, and west of Kyiv. [1] Volhynia's area is about 70,000 square kilometers and its population is more than four million people.
Volhynians - Wikipedia
The Volhynians (Ukrainian: Волиняни, Volyniany, Polish: Wołynianie) were an East [1][2] Slavic tribe of the Early Middle Ages and the Principality of Volhynia in 987–1199.
Volhynia -- Wolhynien
Volhynia -- known as Wolhynien in German -- is in the northwest corner of Ukraine. There was a government district with that name for more than a century, and the region is still generally known as Volhynia even though the old government district is now split between five modern oblasts.
SGGEE Home
2024年11月14日 · SGGEE focuses on the genealogy of Germans from Russian Poland and Volhynia with some help for related regions. You will find that this site works best using a quality browser like Firefox or Google Chrome. The September SGGEE Journal relates the story of Rod Ratzlaff’s family as they leave Volhynia for North America.
Galicia-Volhynia - New World Encyclopedia
The Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia or Galicia-Vladimir, was a principality in post-Kievan Rus' in the late twelfth century and existed until the middle of the fourteenth century. It is also called Galicia-Volynia, Halych-Volhynia, Galicia-Volyn, and Galich-Volyn.