A fort and trading place on the high bank of the Bug, on the frontier with Masovia and the Yotvingians.
Thousands of lead trade seals of the 12th and 13th centuries found here show it as a customs and trading post on the Bug road. It will be given to the Dobrzyń knights by Konrad of Masovia in 1237 and taken by Daniel in 1238; Daniel is crowned here in 1253 (all later).
Who holds it
- Name
- not pinned (most likely Roman)
- Title
- not pinned
- Since
- not pinned
- Confidence
- low
Lord in 1200
Not pinned. Kiev gave it with Berestye to Igor Olgovich in 1142; Vasilko, prince of Shumsk and Dorogichin, held it with Polish backing in 1180; en.wikipedia says it was under Polish rule some time in the late 12th century.
How things stand that morning
Holder not pinned; drawn with Roman. The Poland map leaves it outside Masovia.
Charter
No written charter: towns of Rus' held no chartered privileges in 1200; the townsmen acted through their assembly (veche) and their elders.
Fairs and markets
None recorded.
Walls and castle
Earth-and-timber fort on the Bug bluff.
Trade and crafts
River trade; lead customs seals; furs from the Yotvingian and Polesian woods.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Holder unknown for the 1190s.
Primary sources for Roman's Galicia and Volhynia
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- The Hypatian Chronicle (the Kievan Chronicle compiled about 1200 at the Vydubichi monastery; the Galician-Volhynian Chronicle in the 13th century). The southern record. Read online
- Chronicle of the Poles, by Master Vincent (Wincenty Kadłubek), Wincenty Kadłubek (about 1190 to 1208). Book 4 is a contemporary's account of the fight for the senior throne of Kraków. Read online
- The Deeds of the Hungarians, by the Anonymous Notary of King Béla, Anonymus (P. magister) (about 1200 to 1210, the date disputed). Not a record of events but a picture of the kingdom's nobility and geography as a courtier of about 1200 wished to see it: the clans and their lands, the castles and counties, the Vlachs, Cumans and other peoples of the Carpathian basin, all projected back onto the conquest. Read online
- The Tale of Igor's Campaign (about 1187 to 1200 (disputed)). A poem on Igor Sviatoslavich's defeat by the Polovtsians in 1185 that addresses the princes of the day by name: Vsevolod of Vladimir, Rurik and David Rostislavich, Yaroslav of Galich, Roman of Volhynia and the Olgovichi of Chernigov, of whom Igor himself was prince from 1198. Read online
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.