Term:Red Ruthenia
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A historical geographical term used from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century for the territories of the former Principality of Halych, which were annexed by Poland and organized as the Ruthenian Voivodeship, and for the Belz Voivodeship. Following the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the term was also used as an alternative name for Galicia.