Malopolska

a historical region in Poland within the Upper and Middle Vistula basin, largely coinciding with presentday Kraków, Kielce, Lublin, and Rzeszów województwos. Tribal principalities such as that of the Wiślanie existed in the region from the ninth century. In the ninth and tenth centuries Malopolska was part of the Great Moravian State and the Bohemian Principality. In the late tenth century it was absorbed by the rising Polish state. In the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 16th to the 18th century the province of Malopolska also included Ukrainian lands that had been seized.