Definitions

1. Chernigov is a green Ukrainian city with a history of about 1300 years.
2. Chernigov is also thought to have started as a Khazar settlement.
3. Chernihiv or Chernigov is an ancient city in northern Ukraine, the capital of Chernihiv Oblast (province).
4. Mstislav of Chernigov (or Mstislav the Brave) () was the earliest attested ruler of Chernigov (Chernihiv).

Kirovograd

1. Brett Ousley also owns 2 other marriage agencies that incorporate his marriage agency offices in Kiev, Chernigov and Kirovograd.

Vsevolod

1. Vsevolod I succeeded him, but traded the princedom of Kiev to Iziaslav in exchange for Chernigov.
2. Yaropolk assisted Vsevolod and his Vladimir Monomakh in the fight for the principality of Chernigov against Oleg of Chernigov.

Pereyaslavl

1. In 1239 they devastated the southern towns of Pereyaslavl and Chernigov, and in 1240 conquered Kiev.

Chernigov Branch

1. After Yaroslav the Wise the principality of Chernigov was inherited by his son Sviatoslav, who gave rise to the Chernigov branch of Rurikids.
2. It was a possession of elder line of Chernigov branch of the Rurikovich dynasty, but in the late 13th century Bryansk passed to prince s of Smolensk.

Chernigov Rurikids

1. It was the northernmost of the Severian cities in the possession of the Chernigov Rurikids and the principality of Novgorod-Seversky.

Monastery

1. Gennadius and his disciples moved to Shorse in Chernigov province, where he organized a small house church and monastery.

Districts

1. That is why in 1939 a new �Sumy region� was organized by uniting 12 districts of Kharkov, 17 districts of Chernigov and 2 districts of Poltava regions.
2. In 1781 these regiments merged into districts and several territories became what is now Chernigov province.

Periods

1. In the article "Chernihiv" this spelling is used everywhere and is applied to all periods of history, while "Chernigov" is mentioned as Russian name.

Ukrainian

1. Ethnically he was a Ukrainian, born in Chernigov (Chernihiv) into an officer's family.

Grand Prince

1. On December 6, abandoned by its grand prince, Michael of Chernigov, Kiev fell.

Ukraine

1. On the South, the southeast and the West Sumy oblast borders on the Kharkiv, Poltava and Chernigov oblasts of Ukraine.

Younger Sons

1. He assigned Chernigov to his son Svyatoslav, Pereyaslavl to Vsevolod, and lesser seats to his younger sons.

Mongol Invasion

1. He was subsequently canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church as St Michael of Chernigov and is still hallowed as a martyr of Mongol invasion.

Kievan Rus

1. Putyvl was first mentioned as early as 1146 as an important fortress contested between Chernigov and Novgorod-Seversky principalities of Kievan Rus.

City

1. Chernihiv – Чернігів in Ukrainian, Чернигов (Chernigov) in Russian – is a city of about 294,000 in northern Ukraine.
2. Amateur fisherman Valery Krugersky, 49, was indulging his hobby in a lake just outside the city of Chernigov, Ukraine.
3. Once a major city of the Chernigov Governorate today has estimated population of 76,625 (as of the 2001 census).

Principalities

1. Gedymin, using the Tatar invasion in Kievan and Eastern Rus, joined the principalities of Kiev, Chernigov and Volyn.

Town

1. In 1796, Starodub became a town in the Chernigov province.

Sumy

1. Volhynia might not have been the fray like Chernigov oblasts or Sumy, but it sure did play a big part.

Novgorod

1. Around 1200, Kiev had a population of 50,000, Novgorod and Chernigov both had around 30,000.

Yaroslavl

1. Boyars were hereditary nobles of three categories: 1) Rurikid princes of Chernigov, Rostov, Suzdal, Yaroslavl, etc.

Theotokos

1. The cloister's holiest icon used to be that of Theotokos, who made her epiphany to Svyatoslav of Chernigov on February 6, 1060.

Principality

1. The capital of the principality was the city of Chernigov, modern Chernihiv.
2. The town of Kozelsk was first mentioned in a chronicle under the year of 1146 as a part of Principality of Chernigov.
3. The capital of the principality, Chernigov, was one of the largest economic and cultural centers of Kievan Rus.

Princes

1. It was a possession of elder line of Chernigov branch of the Rurikovich dynasty, but in the late 13th century Bryansk passed to princes of Smolensk.

Prince Michael

1. With the exception of Prince Michael of Chernigov, who was executed, the khan confirmed each of the princes as the ruler in his respective principality.
2. Prince Michael of Chernigov (1185-1246) was one of the most powerful princes of Kievan Rus prior to the Mongol invasion.

Smolensk

1. By the turn of the century, eligibility for the Kievan throne was confined to three dynastic lines: the princes of Volynia, Smolensk, and Chernigov.
2. His children by these marriage were probably Svyatoslav of Smolensk, killed during the 1015 internecine war, and Mstislav of Chernigov.
3. The prince's armed force barrows in the territories of Smolensk, Chernigov, near Yaroslavl and Kiev date from the 9th - 11th centuries.

Bryansk

1. After Mikhail of Chernigov was murdered by the Mongols and his capital was destroyed, his son moved his seat to Bryansk.
2. After the demise of Chernigov by the Mongols, the Principality of Bryansk was formed.

Pereyaslav

1. Yuri instantaneously declared war on the princes of Chernigov, enthroned his son in Novgorod, and captured Pereyaslav of the South.
2. In the winter of 1239, he sacked Chernigov and Pereyaslav.

Kiev

1. In IX-XII centuries the name Rus was strictly limited to Kiev, Chernigov and Pereyaslav lands, also known as Ukraine, which means inland, homeland.
2. At the Battle of Kalka they defeated a combined force of Polovtsy and Rus drawn from Kiev, Chernigov, and Volynia.
3. By the mid-1230s, princes of Chernigov and Smolensk were locked in a prolonged conflict over Kiev.

Chernihiv

1. The main point of interest in the town is the former residence of the Chernihiv (Chernigov) metropolitans, the monastery of the Saviour's Transfiguration.
2. Chernihiv, also referred to as Chernigov, is a historic city in northern Ukraine.
3. The Principality of Chernigov (Chernihiv) is one of the largest state formations of Kievan Rus'.

Chernigov

1. In the PEACE OF ANDRUSSOVO (1667), Poland-Lithuania ceded Smolensk, Chernigov, the territories east of the Dnjepr and the city of Kiev to Russia.
2. Between 1492 and 1508, Ivan III, after winning the key Battle of Vedrosha, regained such ancient lands of Rus as Chernigov and Bryansk.
3. I must repeat, the name Rus was strictly limited to the Principalities of Kiev, Chernigov and Pereyaslav, period.

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