Demarcation of Settlements of Zhydachiv and Stryi Districts of Ruthenian Voivodeship in 16th Century (Northern Fragment of Border)
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The objective of the work is to assess the information potential of the demarcation acts, on the basis of which the border line between two administrative-territorial units within the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland was established. The research methodology is based on the principles of objectivity and historicism. Historical-critical and historical-geographical methods are used in the work. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the introduction into scientific circulation of the demarcation acts of 1586 and 1591, which regulated the border line between Zhydachiv and Stryi districts. Both documents have not been previously published. Their copies were discovered in the books of the Crown Metrics, stored in the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw. The prospect of further research lies in the actualization of demarcation acts, which allow us to clarify the border line of ancient administrative-territorial units. Conclusions. As a result of the demarcations of 1586 and 1591, the northern fragment of the border between the Zhydachiv district of the Lviv land (west of the villages of Pokrivtsi, Yuseptychi and Nove Selo) and the Stryi district of the Przemyśl land (east of the villages of Stryhantsi and Dashava) was revised. At the same time, during the second demarcation, the commissioners were guided not only by the testimonies of the old men, but also by ancient documents, namely one of the so-called «Zhydachiv charters» of Prince Fedir Lyubartovych of 1411 (some researchers considered these charters to be fake; such accusations were repeatedly and reasonably refuted). Although most of the geographical objects mentioned in the acts of 1586 and 1591 (streams, forests, hills and natural borders) could not be identified, individual toponyms (first of all, the names of the rivers: Stryi, Berezhnytsia and Zhyzhava) still make it possible to outline the approximate routes of the final demarcation of the borders in both cases. These routes generally coincide with the boundaries of the listed villages, reflected on maps of the Austrian period. References: 1. Chłapowski, K. (Comp.) (2017). Starostowie niegrodowi w Koronie 1565–1795 : (materiały źródłowe) [Non-judicial starosts in the Kingdom of Poland in 1565–1795 : (source materials)]. Warszawa; Bellerive-sur-Allier [in Polish].2. Gmiterek, H. & Szczygieł, R. (Comps.); Gąsiorowski, A. (Ed.). (1992). Ziemie ruskie [Ruthenian lands]. Pt. 2 : Urzędnicy wojewόdztwa bełskiego i ziemi chełmskiej XIV–XVIII wieku : spisy [Officials of the Bełz Voivodeship and Chełm land in the 14th–18th centuries : lists]. In Urzędnicy dawnej Rzeczypospolitej XIV–XVIII wieku : spisy [Officials of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 14th–18th centuries : lists]. (Vol. 3). Kórnik [in Polish].3. Kapral, M. (2020). Danylo Dazhbohovych Zaderevetskyi – zasnovnyk rodu Danylovychiv [Danylo Dazhbogovych Zaderevetskyi – the progenitor of the Danylovych family]. In Academia terra historiae. Studii na poshanu Valeriia Smoliia, 1, 389–402 [in Ukrainian].4. Kelembet, S. (2020). Kniaz Fedir (Fediushko) Liubartovych : volodinnia v koronnii Rusi ta ikh derzhavno-pravovyi status [Prince Fedir (Fedyushko) Lyubartovych : possessions in Crown Rus and their state and legal status]. Ukrainskyi istorychnyi zhurnal, 4, 4–20 [in Ukrainian].5. Papa, I. (2012). «Zhydachivski hramoty» Fedora Liubartovycha : problema avtentychnosti [«Zhydachiv charters» by Fedir Lyubartovych : the problem of authenticity]. Kniazha doba : istoriia i kultura, 6, 291–314 [in Ukrainian].6. Przyboś, K. (Comp.) (1987). Ziemie ruskie [Ruthenian lands]. Pt. 1: Urzędnicy wojewόdztwa ruskiego XIV–XVIII wieku (ziemie halicka, lwowska, przemyska, sanocka) : spisy [Officials of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the 14th–18th centuries (Halych, Lviv, Przemyśl and Sanok lands) : lists]. In Urzędnicy dawnej Rzeczypospolitej XIV–XVIII wieku : spisy [Officials of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 14th–18th centuries : lists] (Vol. 3). Wrocław; Warszawa; Krakόw; Gdańsk [in Polish].7. Smereka, B. (2024). Rozmezhuvannia poselen Zhydachivskoho i Stryiskoho povitiv Ruskoho voievodstva v XVI stolitti (pivdennyi frahment kordonu) [Demarcation of settlements of Zhydachiv and Stryi districts of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in 16th century (southern fragment of the border)]. Arkhivy Ukrainy, 3(340), 174–195 [in Ukrainian].8. Smutok, I. (2021). Kornalovski–Kulchytski [Family of Kornalowski – family of Kulchytski]. In Ruska shliakhta Peremyshlskoi zemli (XIV–XVIII st.). Rodovody [The Ruthenian nobility of the Przemysl land (14th–18th centuries). Lineages] (Vol. 4). Lviv [in Ukrainian].
Source: Archivi Ukraїni
Author: Bohdan Smereka
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409620351