Pobozhye at 12 – 1 half 15th century

Nicholas Zharkikh

Conclusions

1. In ancient Rus’ times, the Bog river and Pobozhye played no role and were very little known. The only reliably localized town – Medzhybizh – was located on the upper Bog.

2. During the Golden Horde supremacy, Pobozhye was remote from the centers where historical sources were written, and was not the subject of military and political conflicts, therefore, the authors of European chronicles did not have the opportunity to mention it.

3. The mention of "Proslavija" in the chronicle of Matteo Villani (1352) cannot be linked to Bratslav on Bog.

4. On the Mediterranean compass maps (portolans) of the 14th century, the Bog River is not shown.

5. The charters of Prince Fedor Koriatovych from 1391 and 1392 paint a picture of the settlement of the middle Pobozhye. On the left bank of the Bog, the southern border is the Sob River, on the right – the Savran River. Further colonization in the steppe zone stopped by the end of the 16th century.

6. Prince Vytautas’ campaign to conquer the Kyiv region and Podillja can be roughly dated to October 1394 – January 1395. Vytautas captured key points in Pobozhye, the southernmost of which were Bratslav and Sokilets.

7. The grants of Jagiello, and then Vytautas in Podillja are concentrated in its western part, primarily around Kamianets-Podilsky, and almost do not touch the middle Pobozhye (Bratslav region).

8. Vytautas did not found any new town either in the Bratslav region or in the territory of modern Ukraine as a whole.

9. As a result of the war between Poland and Lithuania, which took place in the 1430s, a border was formed in Podillja along the Murafa River, and the middle Pobozhye remained part of Lithuania.

10. The granting of the Black Sea tracts to Theodoryk Buczacki in 1442 was a plan for a future latifundia, where there was currently nothing, but it was planned to build castles, cities and towns. This grant was never implemented.