Lodomeria

Lodomeria (Ukrainian: Лодомерія, Lodomeriia; German: Lodomerien) is the Latinized name of Volodymyria, a synonymous term for the historical region of Volhynia, centered during the Middle Ages in the city of Volodymyr (Old Slavic: Володимѣръ, Volodiměrŭ). After the capital city, the medieval Principality of Volhynia in the Kievan Rus' was also known as the Principality of Volodymyr-in-Volhynia, and on those grounds a Latin term was coined, rendering as Lodomeria (or Ladomeria, Ladimeria, Ladimiria, Vladimiria). The most prominent use of those Latin terms during the medieval times were attested in royal titles of Hungarian kings, since the reign of king Andrew II (1205-1235), who was styled as King of Galicia and Lodomeria, thus expressing pretensions on supreme rule over those regions. Since both Galicia and Lodomeria (Volhynia) where thus included among the lands of the Hungarian Crown, those titles were used by Hungarian kings up to 1918. Latin designation Lodomeria and its variants also appeared in Latin titles of various medieval princes who ruled or claimed Volhynia and its capital city of Volodymyr. Upon the first partition of Poland in 1772, much of Galicia and some parts of Lodomeria (Volhynia) - with the city of Belz, were annexed by the Habsburg Monarchy, whose rulers were also kings of Hungary and thus holding titles on those lands, that were organized as the "Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria". Most of Volhynia (including the city of Volodymyr) remained as part of rump Poland until eventually being annexed in Third Partition of Poland (1795), when some western parts of historical Lodomeria (Volhynia) were assigned to Habsburgs and included into the newly created province of New Galicia, while central and eastern parts (including the city of Volodymyr) were annexed by the Russian Empire. Lodomeria remained part of the Grand title of the emperors of Austria until 1918....