Prince of Chernigov

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The Prince of Chernigov was the kniaz , the ruler or sub-ruler, of the Rus' Principality of Chernigov, a lordship which lasted four centuries straddling what are now parts of Ukraine, Belarus and the Russian Federation. [1]

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