- Ukrainian historical regions
A list of the various regions of
Ukraine and/or inhabited byUkrainians and their ancestors throughout history.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 theDnieper )
*Donbass ("Donets Basin")
*Black Sea Lands
*Crimea ("Krym")In the
Carpathian Mountains (see alsoRuthenia ,Rusyns ):*
Lemko region ("Lemkivshchyna ")
*Boiko 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")Other historic regions and names
*
Little Russia ( _ru. "Malorossiya" or "Malaya Rus"'), the name applied to Ukraine under theRussian 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 theDnieper river
**Left-bank Ukraine ("Livoberezhna Ukrayina" or "Livoberezhzhia"), east of the Dnieper.
*New Russia ( _ru. "Novorossiya"), colony of the Russian Empire in the depopulated steppes, in the south-east of modern-day Ukraine ("Dyke Pole ", "the wild field")Historical Ukrainian states
*
Kievan Rus' (a state ofEarly 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 theUkrainian 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 )References
* Paul Robert Magosci, "Ukraine: A Historical Atlas", 1985.
University of Toronto Press, Toronto. ISBN 0-8020-3428-4
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.