Bryansk
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Bryansk (Брянск) is a city in Russia, 379 km South-West from Moscow. It is the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast. Geographical location 53°16′ N 34°25′ E. Population 454,700 (2001).
The city was founded in 985 as a military settlement on the right bank of Desna River. It was first mentioned in written records in 1146 as Dobryansk. It was a possession of elder line of Chernigov branch of the Rurikovich dynasty, but in the late 13th century Bryansk passed to princes of Smolensk. In the mid 14th century princes of Chernigov ruled again in Bryansk but soon it joined The Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
- To Chernigov until 1245
- A principality under the Golden Horde - 1245 - 1357
- RURIKOVICH
- Roman I (in Chernigov from 1263) - 1245 - 1285
- Oleg (then in Chernigov) - 1285 - 1286
- Roman II - 1286 - 1308
- Basil I - 1308 - 1309 d. 1314
- Svyatoslav (in Mozhaysk 1299 - 1303) - 1309 - 1310
- Basil I (restored) - 1310 - 1314
- Demetrius - 1314 - 1333
- Gleb - 1333 - 1340
- Roman III (in Chernigov to 1370s) - 1340 - 1355 d. 1401
- Basil II - 1355 - 1356
- Anarchic conditions - 1356 - 1357
- A principality under The Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- GIEDYMINOWICZE
- Demetrius II - 1357 - 1379 d. 1399
- To Lithuania directly - 1379 - 1393
- Theodore (in Volhynia 1382 - 1393) - 1393 d. 1431
- To Lithuania directly - 1393 - 1446
- RURIKOVICH
- Basil III of Serpukhov - 1446 d. aft. 1456
- Simon of Obolensk - 1446 - 1447
- To Lithuania - 1447 - 1449
- GIEDYMINOWICZE
- Michael Boleslaw - 1449
- To Lithuania directly - 1449 - 1454
- RURIKOVICH
- John (in Mozhaysk 1432 - 1454) - 1454 - 14??
- To Lithuania - 14?? - 1503
- To Muscovy - 1503 - 1605
- To Rzeczpospolita - 1605 - 1632
- To Russia thereafter...
