Saturday, 9 November 2024

Lwow-Rowno-Ternopol, east of Lwow


This finishes Lwow County.  Steadily the land flattens as we map east; the density of people diminishes, though it'll build up again soon as we near Kiyev.  I'm certain we're going to miss that city by a hair as we map our way by it, just as we turn southeast towards the Black Sea.

The largest city is Krzemieniec (modern Kremenets), which was a fortification against cossacks. The city also suffered battles and violence when Bohdan Khmelnytsky rallied the cossacks in 1648. Driven by grievences and religious oppression of the cossacks and peasants by the Polish nobility, Khmelnytsky allied with the Crimean Tatars, won several key battles, and incited widespread revolts, leading to violent clashes and significant upheaval, especially targeting Polish and Jewish communities seen as representatives of the ruling class. The uprising is ongoing in 1650 (it won't end historically until 1657) so the whole area is in a state of turmoil... if player characters arrived in this, they'd soon be dragged into it.

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