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This story is like a coat of arms, like a seal, like a Galician tile with a griffin, like a tattoo: lapidary, colourful, comprehensive and detailed. Now we would say that this is the main thing you need to know about Halych. Something that can stick in the memory like a brand in the skin."
Taras Prokhasko.

Ivan Krypiakevych is a Galician, historian, editor, professor at the Lviv (secret) Ukrainian University, later a professor at the Ivan Franko University of Lviv, and an academician of the Ukrainian SSR. He is known as the author of a large number of scientific studies on Ukrainian Cossack statehood and Bohdan Khmelnytsky, a number of textbooks on the history of Ukraine. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

This is a reprint of the work "The Princely City of Halych" published in the Historical Library of the Enlightenment in 1923. The essay describes the history of Halych, which was a major economic and cultural centre in the times of Kyivan Rus. It briefly describes the first mentions, the founding of the city, life in the city in princely times, trade, buildings, courts, banquets, and entertainment .