Russian is the English adjective of Rus.
It is because Belarus is a part of Rus.
Sure, because the name of Berestye is several centuries older than St Petersburg.
And those East Slavics were Russians who called it Berestye as evidenced by the Galich-Volhyn chronicle.
It's not. The adjective for Rus(') is, in English, the same as the noun. Russian is the adjective for Russia.
I don't think you can state such a thing unequivocally. In fact, there is no clear adjective for Rus' in English. "Russian", "Rusian", and the noun itself are all valid, and neither of them is more correct than the others. Aside from that, the person you responded to was clearly using "Russian" in this sense in particular.
I understand everyone would like to see places they are emotionally connected with represented in game, but if there is a city this location should be renamed to it's Olkusz:
As you mentioned, this is an archaic form. Using it would introduce confusion as noone calls Mazovians this way anymore. This term is used to describe Mazovian colonists that settled in southern Prussia (hence the name of the region: Mazuria) who with time developed their own identity.
Why? What's wrong with naming the area Podolia / Podillia?
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The map you linked shows that Belz (but also Bielsk, Drohiczyn, Wizna, Proskuriv and others) were between XI and XIII c. controlled by Principality of Volhynia. Political control does not imply those towns were part of historical region of Volhynia.
I don't speak any east slavic language, but it seems the name you proposed is a Russian variant.
There are also Rusins who are a different thing. But such nonsensical terminology exists in modern discourse amongst Slavic nationalists
Rus is the local name, Rossia is Greek, Ruthenia is Latin. Same location but 3 names in 3 languages.
As of 1337 in particular, it's even more important to remember than Rus is an ecclesiastical province, and there is indeed a metropolitan of all of Rus who is very stubborn about holding on to his grand status and who doesn't want to split his province into 2 (or even 3).
I have literally never seen Russian used as the adjective for Rus' in English. I state this unequivocally. Which is why I cannot assume any such intent. I don't have time to correct people who I don't believe to be in the wrong.
The question is whether the adjective Russian is ever used in reference to the noun Rus('). None of these authors do that. The italics are, and always have been there, for a reason. I'm not talking about the Rus', I'm talking about Rus'. If that sentence doesn't make sense to you, go back and read the whole conversation from the beginning until it does. This conversation has been neither pleasant nor productive for me and I really did mean what I said about not having time.
That's precisely what I did. I provided a map, which you dismissed for... can I even call them reasons? The notion that you shouldn't argue your point at all because you're defending the status quo, which we all know for a fact started out with glaring mistakes (no offense, Paradox), is a travesty of the burden of proof.
Podolia is the anachronistic one. I gave you an objective reason and a subjective one, and you weaponized that against me by outright lying about the former and pretending the latter was the only one I gave.So far I learned you would use anachronistic name of Ponyzzia (hardly mentioned in any sources pertaining to the timeframe the game covers) rather than Podolia (mentioned in countless of sources, printed on countless of maps) because the former has positive and latter negative conotations in your head
If you interpret Russian Kingdom and Russian Pravda as the law of the Rus and the kingdom of the Rus, then here's Gail Lenhoff calling Isidor the metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia in UCLA Slavic Studies new series volume 4. The title is well known to be всея Руси, it can hardly be confused with the name of the people.
