The Polish conquest of the kingdom in 1349 led to it being fully absorbed by Catholic Poland. Following the destruction wreaked by the Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' (1239 to 1241), Prince Daniel of Galicia and other princes of Rus' pledged allegiance to Batu Khan of the Golden Horde in 1246. Roman the Great united the principalities of Halych and Volhynia at the turn of the 13th century. The main language was Old East Slavic, the predecessor of the modern East Slavic languages, and the official religion was Eastern Orthodoxy. Along with Novgorod and Vladimir-Suzdal, it was one of the three most important powers to emerge from the collapse of Kievan Rus'. Its territory was predominantly located in modern-day Ukraine, with parts in Belarus, Poland, Moldova, and Lithuania. The Principality or, from 1253, Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia ( Ukrainian: Галицько-Волинське князівство, romanized: Halytsko-Volynske kniazivstvo Latin: Regnum Galiciae et Lodomeriae), historically known as the Kingdom of Ruthenia ( Old East Slavic: Королєвство Русь, romanized: Korolevstvo Rusĭ Ukrainian: Королівство Русь, romanized: Korolivstvo Rus Latin: Regnum Russiæ), was a medieval state in Eastern Europe which existed from 1199 to 1349.
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