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the Golden Horde and expanded the southern
                              borders  of  the  state  to  the  mouth  of  the
                              Southern Bug river.
            1308-1323         The  rule  of  Lev  II  Yuriyovych  and
                              AndriyYuriyovych,  the  last  princes  of
                              Romanovychy       dynasty,    who      called
                              themselves “by mercy of God the princes of
                              the    whole     Rus,     Halychyna      and
                              Volodymyriya”. They provided protectionism
                              for  trade,  the  city  of  Syanok  received
                              Magdeburg law in 1320. The brothers-princes
                              are supposed to have been killed in the battle
                              with Tatars.
            1325-1340         The    rule    of   Yuriy    II   (Boleslav)
                              Troidenovych,  the  son  of  the  last  princes  of
                              Romanovychy dynasty Lev’s II and Andriy’s
                              sister Mariya and Mazovets prince. He settled
                              relations with the Golden Horde and the Great
                              Principality of Lithuania (married Lithuanian
                              prince  Hedymin’s  daughter).  The  relations
                              with  Poland  were  friendly  first,  but
                              aggravated  later.  In  1337  he  carried  out  a
                              campaign against Lublin together with Tatars.
                              He protected foreigners, invited Germans and
                              Czechs, supported Catholic clergy. His death
                              (was  poisoned  by  boyars)  put  the  end  to
                              independence of Galicia-Volhynia princedom.

              ТHEME 6. Ukrainian lands under the authority of foreign
                           states in the ХIV-XVI centuries.

                    PART І. Occupation of Halychyna by Poland.
            1340              The  first  campaign  of  the  Polish  king



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