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Mongol Invasion to the Seventeenth Century

Devastated by the invading Mongols in 1240, it subsequently passed under the rule of the state of Halych-Volynia (prior to 1264) before falling to Gediminas (Gedimin) in 1321, and in 1362 became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

The city was frequently attacked by Crimean Tatars and in 1482 was destroyed again by Crimean Khan Menli I Giray. Despite its little remaining political significance, the city still played an important role as a seat of the local Orthodox metropolitan. However, starting in 1494 the city's local autonomy (Magdeburg rights) gradually increased in a series of acts of Lithuanian Grand Dukes and Polish Kings which was finalized by 1516 charter granted by Sigismund I.

After the 1569 Union of Lublin that formed the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Kiev (Pol. Kijow) with other Ukrainian territories was transferred to the Polish crown were it became a capital of Kijow Voivodship. Its role of Orthodox center strengthened due to expansion of Roman Catholicism under Polish rule. In 1632, Peter Mogila the Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia established the Kiev Mogila Academy, an educational institution aimed to preserve and develop Ukrainian culture and Orthodox faith despite Polish Catholic oppression. Although ruled by the church, the academy provided students with educational standards close to universities of Western Europe (including multilingual training) and became the foremost educational center, both religious and secular.

In 1648 the Bohdan Khmelnytsky's cossacks triumphantly entered Kiev in the course of their uprising establishing the rule of their Cossack state in the city. This rule was short-lived, and in 1654 Khmelnytsky had to establish a protective Treaty of Pereyaslav with Muscovite Russia. The 1667 Treaty of Andrusovo put Kiev under the control of Russia for the centuries to come with the territory, slowly losing the autonomy which was finally abolished in 1775 by the Empress Catherine the Great.

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Early Times to Mongol Invasion (1240)
Nineteenth century to the 1917 Revolution
Ukrainian Revolution and Independence
1918-1941
World War II
Post-WWII Ukrainian SSR
Independent Ukraine

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Mongol Invasion to the Seventeenth Century

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