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28-512: Dnipriany was founded in 1791 under the name Brytany on the lands of a military officer by fugitive serfs from other parts of the Russian Empire , such as Poltava Governorate , Kursk Governorate , and Oryol Governorate , among others. By 1822, 335 people lived in Brytany, which had an economy based around agriculture. By 1880, there were agricultural processing plants in the village. In 1886, it

56-569: A feudal state, with predominantly agricultural economy and an increasingly dominant landed nobility component. The Nihil novi act adopted by the Polish Sejm ( parliament ) in 1505, transferred most of the legislative power from the monarch to the Sejm. This event marked the beginning of the period known as " Golden Liberty ", when the state was ruled by the "free and equal" Polish nobility . Protestant Reformation movements made deep inroads into

84-559: A peasant rebellion being on the other end of the spectrum). Escape was a highly effective form of resistance, as it was difficult to prevent, damaging to the landowner and difficult and costly in addressing. It was also one of the most common form of peasant resistance, a regular occurrence in the societies with serfdom. It is difficult to estimate the scale of the problem, but it was regarded as significant. In 18th-century Russia, for example, tens of thousands of runaway peasants were captured every year, but that number likely represents only

112-739: A few few fugitives who were returned to their 'legitimate owners', millions of other peasants were left in their new places". Legal cases involving runaway peasantry represented a significant part of legal proceedings in many countries, such as in the Duchy of Livonia . Peasants chose to escape if they felt that they had little to lose; or suffered from heavy taxation and exploitation, theft and hunger; or wanted avoid military conscription or religious persecution. Peasants usually ran away to neighbouring provinces, and less often, to foreign countries. However, significant differences between serfdom regimes in various countries could encourage international flight. In

140-431: A fraction of those who successfully eluded recapture. Jezierski described the phenomenon of fugitive peasants as commonplace in medieval Poland. In most countries with the institution of serfdom, leaving one's land was illegal. However, regulations that existed, they were often poorly enforced, disputed by various stakeholders and changed back and forth over time. In medieval Poland , for example, there were laws against

168-400: A large empty space and may have served primarily as refuges in times of trouble. The Polans settled the plains around Giecz , Poznań and Gniezno that would become the early center of Poland and lent their name to the country. They went through a period of accelerated building of gord-type fortified settlements and of territorial expansion, beginning in the first half of the 10th century, and

196-508: A refuge for many runaway serfs. That is reflected in a folk Russian saying "С Дону выдачи нет!" ("There is no extradition from the Don !"), in reference to Don Cossacks . Medieval Poland Timeline of Polish history This article covers the history of Poland in the Middle Ages . This time covers roughly a millennium , from the 5th century to the 16th century. It is commonly dated from

224-498: A strong kingdom and integrated Poland into the European culture . Mieszko's son Bolesław I Chrobry established a Polish Church province , pursued territorial conquests and was officially crowned, becoming the first King of Poland . This was followed by a collapse of the monarchy and restoration under Casimir I . Casimir's son Bolesław II the Bold became fatally involved in a conflict with

252-712: The Fall of the Western Roman Empire , and contrasted with a later Early Modern Period . The time during which the rise of humanism in the Italian Renaissance and the Reformation unfolded is generally associated with the transition out of the Middle Ages, with European overseas expansion as a succeeding process, but such dates are approximate and based upon nuanced arguments. The first waves of Slavic migration settled

280-643: The German Prussian state . The Kingdom was restored under Władysław I the Elbow-high , strengthened and expanded by his son Casimir III the Great . The western provinces of Silesia and Pomerania were lost after the fragmentation, and Poland began expanding to the east. The consolidation in the 14th century laid the base for, after the reigns of two members of the Angevin dynasty , the new powerful Kingdom of Poland that

308-559: The Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic , Dnipriany—along with the surrounding village council—was subordinated to Nova Kakhovka Municipality . On 2 October 2018, Dnipriany was assigned to Nova Kakhovka urban hromada , one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Nova Kakhovka Municipality as an administrative unit was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced

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336-578: The ecclesiastical authority , and was expelled from the country. After Bolesław III divided the country among his sons , internal fragmentation eroded the initial Piast monarchy structure in the 12th and 13th centuries. One of the regional Piast dukes invited the Teutonic Knights to help him fight the Baltic Prussian pagans, which caused centuries of Poland's warfare with the Knights and then with

364-761: The 18th century the Russian serfs were escaping from Russia to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (where previously harsh conditions were improving) in significant enough numbers to become a major concern for the Russian Government sufficient to play a role in its decision to partition the Commonwealth . In Eastern Europe, the lands of the Cossacks were seen during the Early Modern Period as

392-563: The 9th century), but later the tribe(s) referred to as the Polans ( Polanie —literally, "people of the fields") would prove of decisive historic importance. At the end of the 9th century Vistulans were part of the Great Moravia , according to some theories. The tribal states built many gords – fortified structures with earthen and wooden walls and embankments – from the 7th century onward. Some of these were developed and inhabited; others featured

420-733: The Early Middle Ages article, many scholars now believe that the Slavic tribes had not been present in Poland before the earliest medieval period, though the opposite view, predominant in Polish prehistory and protohistory in the past, is still represented. From there, over the 6th century, the new population dispersed north and west. The Slavs lived mostly by cultivating crops but also engaged in hunting and gathering . Their migrations took place while Eastern and Central Europe were being invaded from

448-731: The Polish Christianity, which resulted in unique at that time in Europe policies of religious tolerance . The European Renaissance currents evoked in late Jagiellon Poland (kings Sigismund I the Old and Sigismund II Augustus ) an immense cultural flowering . Poland's and Lithuania's territorial expansion included the far north region of Livonia . a. "Though their names are now dispersed amid various clans and places, yet they are chiefly called Sclaveni and Antes"; transl. by Charles Christopher Mierow , Princeton University Press 1908, from

476-573: The Polish state developed from their tribal polities in the second half of the 10th century. The Polish state begins with the rule of Mieszko I of the Piast dynasty in the second half of the 10th century. Mieszko chose to be baptized in the Western Latin Church in 966. Following its emergence, the Polish nation was led by a series of rulers who converted the population to Christianity , created

504-455: The area of the upper Vistula River and elsewhere in the lands of present-day southeastern Poland and southern Masovia , coming from the upper and middle regions of the Dnieper River . Results of a genetic study by researchers from Gdańsk Medical University "support hypothesis placing the earliest known homeland of Slavs in the middle Dnieper basin ". The West Slavs came primarily from

532-503: The east by waves of peoples and armies such as the Huns , Avars and Magyars . A number of West Slavic Polish tribes formed small states, beginning in the 8th century, some of which later coalesced into larger states. Among these tribes were the Vistulans ( Wiślanie ) in southern Poland, with Kraków and Wiślica as their main centers (major fortified centers were built in their country in

560-441: The flight of peasants, but their enforcement was usually left in the hands of the landowners. Escape was sometimes encouraged by other landowners, who needed labour and promised better working conditions, even if such attitude was illegal and penalised by a fine, which compounded the problem. Similar problems existed in medieval Russia, Ottoman Empire , Germany, and other places. Stanziani writes about 17th century Russia: "For

588-508: The grape fields. Also during the late 19th century, a steam mill was built in Brytany. During World War II , Brytany was occupied by Nazi Germany between September 8, 1941 and November 1, 1943. In 1946, after the end of the war, Brytany was renamed to Dnipriany. In 1956, it received urban-type settlement status. In 1957, the village Osnovy was merged into Dnipriany by an edict of the Kherson Oblast regional committee. In 1965, by order of

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616-630: The more western early Slavic branch called the Sclaveni by the Byzantine historian Jordanes in Getica , the eastern branch being the Antes . The Slavs had first migrated into Poland in the second half of the 5th century, some half century after these territories had been vacated by Germanic tribes (after a period during which settlements were absent or rare). According to the references given in this and Poland in

644-681: The next four centuries. In the Baltic Sea region Poland's struggle with the Teutonic Knights continued and included the milestone Peace of Thorn under King Casimir IV Jagiellon ; the treaty created the future Duchy of Prussia . In the south Poland confronted the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Tatars , and in the east helped Lithuania fight the Grand Duchy of Moscow . Poland was developing as

672-603: The number of raions of Kherson Oblast to five. The area of the former Nova Kakhovka Municipality was merged into Kakhovka Raion. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in 2022, Dnipriany was captured and occupied by Russian forces. In June 2023, the Kakhovka Dam was blown up , flooding vast areas in Kherson Oblast, including Dnipriany. Footage showed that Dnipriany was either completely or almost completely underwater on 6 June 2023. Until 26 January 2024, Dnipriany

700-437: The settlement had a population of 4,712, most of whom were ethnic Ukrainians . Fugitive serfs Fugitive peasants (also runaway peasants , or flight of peasants ) are peasants who left their land without permission, violating serfdom laws. Under serfdom, peasants usually required permission to leave the land they lived on. Running away was seen as the ultimate form of passive nonviolent peasant resistance (with

728-658: Was designated urban-type settlement . On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Dnipriany became a rural settlement. Dnipriany is home to the Dnipriany River Port . The closest railway station, Elektromash , is located in Nova Kakhovka . It is on the railway connecting Mykolaiv via Snihurivka and Nova Kakhovka with Melitopol . There is infrequent passenger traffic. The settlement has road access to Nova Kakhovka and further to Highway M14 connecting Kherson with Melitopol. In 2001,

756-543: Was located in Kakhovka Volost  [ uk ] , Dneprovsky Uyezd , Taurida Governorate , and had a church. In 1889, the village Osnovy ( Ukrainian : Основи ) was founded nearby by settlers from the village of Shabo (today in Odesa Oblast , Ukraine). The people of Osnovy planted large grape plantations and made wine, which was exported through the pier at Brytany. Many of the people of Brytany would also work on

784-638: Was to follow. Beginning with the Lithuanian Grand Duke Jogaila (Władysław II Jagiełło), the Jagiellon dynasty (1385–1569) formed the Polish–Lithuanian union . The partnership brought vast Lithuania -controlled Rus' areas into Poland's sphere of influence and proved beneficial for the Poles and Lithuanians , who coexisted and cooperated in one of the largest political entities in Europe for

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