Oleshia or Oleshye is the name of a former settlement and a historic area on the lower Dnieper. During its existence, the port settlement was controlled by Kievan Rus', and was an important center of fishing and trade due to its location on the route from the Varangians to the Greeks. In May 1223, the Rus' princes Danylo and Mstislav defeated the Mongols during Battle of Oleshia.
Oleshia or Oleshye is the name of a former settlement and a historic area on the lower Dnieper. During its existence, the port settlement was controlled by Kievan Rus', and was an important center of fishing and trade due to its location on the route from the Varangians to the Greeks. In May 1223, the Rus' princes Danylo and Mstislav defeated the Mongols during Battle of Oleshia.
== Location == thumb|300x300px|This map attempts to reconstruct the 11th century. Oleshia (Oleshye) is shown on the Dnieper River downstream from modern Kherson. Some researchers believe that Oleshia was located further west, at the confluence of the Dnieper–Bug estuary. There are two possible locations of Oleshia: Velykyi Potomkin Island in the Dnieper Delta, and the settlement Adzhyhol-1 with the Dniprovske-2 hillfort on the Dnieper–Bug estuary. There are Kievan Rus'-era archaeological finds in both sites. At any rate, it is not to be identified with Pontic Olbia, an archaeological site of an ancient Greek port city further to the north on the Southern Bug.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).