Rylsk County
Rylsk may refer to: *Rylsk, Russia, a town in Kursk Oblast, Russia *Rylsk, Łódź Voivodeship Rylsk is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Regnów, within Rawa County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Regnów, south-east of Rawa Mazowiecka Rawa Mazowiecka is a town in central ...

Rylsk, Russia
Rylsk (russian: Рыльск) is a town and the administrative center of Rylsky District in Kursk Oblast, western Russia, located on the right bank of the Seym River (Dnieper's basin) southwest of Kursk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 19,000 (1974). History Rylsk was first mentioned in a chronicle in 1152 as one of the Severian towns. It had become the seat of an appanage principality by the end of the 12th century before coming into the hands of Lithuanian rulers sometime in the 14th century. The Polish king Casimir IV made a grant of it to Dmitry Shemyaka's son Ivan, who had settled in Lithuania. Ivan's son Vasily defected to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, but Lithuanians held the town until 1522. During the Time of Troubles, it was one of the first towns to welcome False Dmitry I as the Tsar. After the Ukraine's integration into the Russian Empire, Rylsk capitalized on the trade between Little Russia and Great Russia. Numerous merchants resided ...
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