Place:Volodymyr-Volyns'kyĭ, Volodymyr-Volyns'kyi, Volyn, Ukraine

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Name	Volodymyr-Volyns'kyĭ
Alt names	Lodomeria	source: Times Atlas of the World (1994) p 348
	Vladimir	source: Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers; Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
	Vladimir in Volhynia	source: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
	Vladimir-Volynsk	source: Times Atlas of World History (1993) p 359
	Vladimir-Volynski	source: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
	Vladimir-Volynskij	source: Rand McNally Atlas (1989) I-187
	Vladimir-Volynskiy	source: Times Atlas of World History (1993) p 359
	Volodymyr-Volynsky	source: Wikipedia
	Volodymyr-Volynskyi	source: Wikipedia
	Włodzimierz	source: Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 1001
	Володимир-Волинський	source: Wikipedia
Type	City
Coordinates	50.85°N 24.333°E
Located in	Volodymyr-Volyns'kyi, Volyn, Ukraine     (700 - )

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Volodymyr (from 1944 to 2021 Volodymyr-Volynskyi) is a small city located in Volyn Oblast, in north-western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of the Volodymyr-Volynskyi Raion and the center of Volodymyr hromada. The city is the historic centre of the region of Volhynia and the historic capital of the Principality of Volhynia. It is one of the oldest cities of Ukraine and Kyiv Rus'.

The medieval Latin name of the town "Lodomeria" became the namesake of the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , of which the town itself was not a part. south from Volodymyr is Zymne, where the oldest Orthodox Monastery in Volynia is located.

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