Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Principality of Vitebsk
drawn on the map 1111–1187
A sub-principality that split from Polotsk in the 12th century, ruled by Vseslav's descendants. It controlled a key stretch of the Daugava trade route.
- Shown on the map
- 1111–1187
- Peak area
- 34k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
A sub-principality that split from Polotsk in the 12th century, ruled by Vseslav's descendants. It controlled a key stretch of the Daugava trade route. It passed to Lithuania in the 14th century (by marriage, when Algirdas married the heiress of Vitebsk) and became a Lithuanian appanage, later a voivodeship.
Common questions
- What was the Principality of Vitebsk?
- A sub-principality that split from Polotsk in the 12th century, ruled by Vseslav's descendants. It controlled a key stretch of the Daugava trade route.
- When is the Principality of Vitebsk shown on the map?
- The border data draws the Principality of Vitebsk 1111–1187. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was the Principality of Vitebsk?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Principality of Vitebsk covered about 34,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, academic works (John Fine on the Balkans, Halperin and Martin on Muscovy, Rady and Veszprémy on Hungary) and, for a few entries, the medieval Livonian Chronicle of Henry itself. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Principality of Vitebsk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Vitebsk
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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