Ukrainian historical regions

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A list of the various regions of Ukraine and/or inhabited by Ukrainians and their ancestors throughout history.

Contents 1 Traditional regions 2 Other historic regions and names 3 Historical Ukrainian states 4 References

[edit] Traditional regions

The traditional names of the regions of Ukraine are important geographic, historical, and ethnographic identifiers.

• Volhynia (Volyn’)
• Galicia (Halychyna)
• Podolia (Podillya)
• Sloboda Ukraine (Slobozhanshchyna, "free land")
• Zaporizhzhia ("beyond the rapids" of the Dnieper)
• Donbas ("Donets Basin")
• Black Sea Lands
• Crimea (Krym)

In the Carpathian Mountains (see also Ruthenia, Rusyns):

• Lemkian region (Lemkivshchyna)
• Boikian region (Boikivshchyna)
• Hutsul region (Hutsul’shchyna)
• Transcarpathia (Zakarpattia)

Regions historically inhabited by Ukrainians (mostly with other nations), which are partly or wholly outside modern Ukraine:

• San River region
• Chełm (Kholm) region
• Podlachia (Podlasie)
• Polesie (Polissia)
• Bukovina (Bukovyna)
• Southern Basarabia (Budjak/Southern Bessarabia)
• Don river valley
• Kuban’

[edit] Other historic regions and names

• Little Russia (Russian: Malorossiya or Malaya Rus'), the name applied to Ukraine under the Russian Empire and earlier. Also, for historic reasons (note: left-bank and right bank refer to the bank of the river when facing downstream):
  • Right-bank Ukraine (Pravoberezhna Ukrayina or Pravoberezhzhia), west of the Dnieper river
  • Left-bank Ukraine (Livoberezhna Ukrayina or Livoberezhzhia), east of the Dnieper.
• New Russia (Russian: Novorossiya), colony of the Russian Empire in the depopulated steppes, in the south-east of modern-day Ukraine (Dyke Pole, "the wild field")

[edit] Historical Ukrainian states

Main article: History of Ukraine

• Kievan Rus' (a state of Early East Slavs, c. 880–13th century);
• Galicia-Volhynia (Halych-Volyn’, 13th–14th centuries)
• Zaporozhian Host (1555–1654)
• Cossack Hetmanate (1654–1783)
• Army of Lower Zaporozhia (Old Sich, 1654–1709)
• Free Lands of the Zaporozhian Host (New Sich, 1734–1775)
• Central Rada of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1918)
• Hetmanate of the Ukrainian State (1918)
• West Ukrainian People's Republic (1918–1919)
• Directorate of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1918–1920)
• Galician Soviet Socialist Republic (1920
• Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919–1991)
• Carpatho-Ukraine (1939)

[edit] References

• Paul Robert Magosci, Ukraine: A Historical Atlas, 1985. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. ISBN 0-8020-3428-4