Principality of Turov and Pinsk

The Principality of Turov and Pinsk, Turovian Rus, was the Belarusian principality of Kievan Rus from the tenth century on the wild green old eastern borderlands of the Dregoviches and Drevlyans. Mentioned in the Primary Chronicle in 980, its princes sat early among Kiev's grand princes in the tenth and eleventh centuries, ruling from Turov with Pinsk, Mazyr, Slutsk, Lutsk, Brest and Volodymyr under their hand on today's Belarus and northern Ukraine, Turovian Rus by name. Yaroslav beat Svyatopolk in 1016-18, set Izyaslav, wed to Casimir's sister, over Turov about 1042 and Kiev in 1054, Yaropolk held Volhynia with Turov from 1078, and Svyatopolk passed Turov to nephew Vyacheslav with Brest and Volodymyr to his sons. Bound close to Kiev and Volhynia, it won a wide autonomy under Galicia-Volhynia before the Mongols came, then passed in the fourteenth century to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, melting into the Lithuanian-Ruthenian world.