Lutsk

Lutsk stands on the Styr River in Volhynia. It grew in importance under Prince Liubart in the fourteenth century, when its castle was a centre of princely authority. In 1429, during the rule of Vytautas, rulers including King Władysław Jagiełło and Sigismund of Luxembourg met at Lutsk to discuss matters including defence against the Ottomans and Vytautas's proposed coronation. The town received Magdeburg law in 1432.

After the Union of Lublin in 1569, Lutsk passed to the Polish Crown and became the centre of the Volhynian voivodeship. Its churches and monasteries served several communities, and the city remained a major centre of crafts and commerce. Wars and fires contributed to decline in the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.