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The Ulichs (Uglichs) (????? in Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
, ????? in Ukrainian
Ukrainian language

Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic languages of the Slavic languages. It is the official language of Ukraine. In some areas of Russia there are dialects, Balachka or Surzhyk, which are the Ukrainianized versions of the Russian language....
) were a tribe
Tribe

A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states.Many anthropologists use the term to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups ....
 of Early East Slavs who between the eighth and the tenth century inhabited the territories along the Lower Dnieper, Bug River
Bug river

Bug or Buh river refers to either:* Western Bug, a river in Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus* Southern Bug, a river in Ukraine...
 and the Black Sea
Black Sea

The Black Sea is an inland sea sea bounded by southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Anatolia and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Seas and various straits....
 littoral.

The Ulichs long struggled against the Kievan
Kievan Rus'

Kievan Rus' , also written as Kyivan Rus', was a medieval state which existed from approximately 880 to the middle of the 12th century. Founded by the Scandinavian traders called "Rus' " and centered in the city of Kiev , Rus' polity is considered an early predecessor of three modern East Slavs nations: Belarusians, Russians, and Ukrai...
 prince
Prince

Prince, from the Latin root princeps, is a general term for a monarch, for a member of a monarch's or former monarch's family, and is a hereditary title in some members of Europe's highest nobility....
s Oleg
Oleg of Novgorod

Oleg of Novgorod was a Varangian prince who ruled all or part of the Rus during the early tenth century. He is credited with moving the capital of Kievan Rus' from Novgorod the Great to Kiev and, in doing so, laid the foundation for the powerful state of Kievan Rus....
, Igor and Sviatoslav Igorevich for their independence
Independence

Independence is the self-government of a nation, country, or state by its residents and population, or some portion thereof, generally exercising sovereignty....
, until a Kievan commander Sveneld
Sveneld

Sveneld was a 10th-century Varangian warlord in the service of Svyatoslav I of Kiev and his family. Although he seems to have been the richest and the most influential Rus' leader after the ruling prince, his relation to the House of Rurik, if it existed, has not been positively established....
 captured their capital, Peresechen (near Orhei
Orhei

Orhei is a town and an administrative region of Moldova with a population of 25,680. It is located at , in the centre of the country. Prior to 2003 Orhei was a Judet, a large administrative region, but the country was divided further in Raion, or districts....
, in present-day Moldova
Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south....
), around 940.






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The Ulichs (Uglichs) (????? in Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
, ????? in Ukrainian
Ukrainian language

Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic languages of the Slavic languages. It is the official language of Ukraine. In some areas of Russia there are dialects, Balachka or Surzhyk, which are the Ukrainianized versions of the Russian language....
) were a tribe
Tribe

A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states.Many anthropologists use the term to refer to societies organized largely on the basis of kinship, especially corporate descent groups ....
 of Early East Slavs who between the eighth and the tenth century inhabited the territories along the Lower Dnieper, Bug River
Bug river

Bug or Buh river refers to either:* Western Bug, a river in Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus* Southern Bug, a river in Ukraine...
 and the Black Sea
Black Sea

The Black Sea is an inland sea sea bounded by southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Anatolia and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Seas and various straits....
 littoral.

The Ulichs long struggled against the Kievan
Kievan Rus'

Kievan Rus' , also written as Kyivan Rus', was a medieval state which existed from approximately 880 to the middle of the 12th century. Founded by the Scandinavian traders called "Rus' " and centered in the city of Kiev , Rus' polity is considered an early predecessor of three modern East Slavs nations: Belarusians, Russians, and Ukrai...
 prince
Prince

Prince, from the Latin root princeps, is a general term for a monarch, for a member of a monarch's or former monarch's family, and is a hereditary title in some members of Europe's highest nobility....
s Oleg
Oleg of Novgorod

Oleg of Novgorod was a Varangian prince who ruled all or part of the Rus during the early tenth century. He is credited with moving the capital of Kievan Rus' from Novgorod the Great to Kiev and, in doing so, laid the foundation for the powerful state of Kievan Rus....
, Igor and Sviatoslav Igorevich for their independence
Independence

Independence is the self-government of a nation, country, or state by its residents and population, or some portion thereof, generally exercising sovereignty....
, until a Kievan commander Sveneld
Sveneld

Sveneld was a 10th-century Varangian warlord in the service of Svyatoslav I of Kiev and his family. Although he seems to have been the richest and the most influential Rus' leader after the ruling prince, his relation to the House of Rurik, if it existed, has not been positively established....
 captured their capital, Peresechen (near Orhei
Orhei

Orhei is a town and an administrative region of Moldova with a population of 25,680. It is located at , in the centre of the country. Prior to 2003 Orhei was a Judet, a large administrative region, but the country was divided further in Raion, or districts....
, in present-day Moldova
Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south....
), around 940. In the mid-10th century the Ulich lands paid tribute to Sveneld
Sveneld

Sveneld was a 10th-century Varangian warlord in the service of Svyatoslav I of Kiev and his family. Although he seems to have been the richest and the most influential Rus' leader after the ruling prince, his relation to the House of Rurik, if it existed, has not been positively established....
. Later on, the Ulichs and the neighboring Tivertsi
Tivertsi

Tivertsi, a.k.a. Tivertsy, Tiverians is a tribe of early East Slavs which supposedly lived in the lands of upper Dniester, and conjecturally lower Dniester and Danube rivers, that is in modern-day Western Ukraine, and possibly in modern-day Moldova, eastern Romania and southern Odessa oblast of Ukraine....
 had to retreat to the north due to the Pecheneg
Pechenegs

The Pechenegs or Patzinaks were a nomad Turkic peoples people of the Central Asian steppes speaking the Pecheneg language which belonged to the Turkic languages....
 invasion. There they were assimilate
Assimilation (sociology)

The blending or fusing of minority groups into the dominant society. See Cultural assimilation....
d by the Volhynians
Volhynians

Volhynians were a tribe or tribal union of early East Slavs. They are mentioned in the Primary Chronicle as well as by the Bavarian Geographer....
. The Ulichs were last mentioned in the 970s.