Principality of Peremyshl

The Principality of Peremyshl was a medieval East Slavic principality centred on the city of Peremyshl, today Przemyśl in south-eastern Poland. It lay in Red Rus', the westernmost part of the lands of the former Kievan Rus', and bordered the medieval Polish kingdom. From the eleventh to the thirteenth century the principality was ruled mostly by collateral branches of the Riurikid dynasty, although it repeatedly came under the influence of neighbouring Polish and Hungarian rulers. Its position on the frontier made it a contested territory between the Galician-Volhynian princes, Poland and Hungary. By the fourteenth century the region had passed under firm Polish control, and the principality ceased to exist as a separate political unit. Peremyshl itself remained an important episcopal and trading centre, and its medieval cathedral and castle preserve the memory of the principality. The city later became part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and, after the partitions, of the Habsburg monarchy.