Black Russia

1694. The great historical, geographical and poetical dictionary by Louis Moreri.

Russia Nigra, or Black or Little Russia, a Province of Poland between Volhinia, Podolia, Little Poland, Hungary and Transilvania. The Inhabitants of this Country are called by Latin Authors Russi or Rutheni, for that they are esteemed to deduce their original from the Roxolans. Russia has had formerly its particular Dukes, and the Grand Czar of Muscovy put to death in the Sixteenth Age, the last of the Race of those Princes. Its Capital City is Leopoll or Luvow, which the Germans call Russelemburg; the others are Premislau, Belz, Chelm or Chielmnick, Jeroslaw, Zamoski, &c.