Right-bank Ukraine

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Right-bank Ukraine
Правобережна Україна
Historical region
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Right-bank Ukraine

Dnieper River, corresponding to the modern-day oblasts of Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, as well as the western parts of Kyiv and Cherkasy. It was separated from the left bank during the Ruin
.

Right-bank Ukraine is bordered by the historical regions of Volhynia and Podolia to the west, Moldavia to the southwest, Yedisan and Zaporizhzhia to the south, left-bank Ukraine to the east, and Polesia to the north.

Main cities of the region include Cherkasy, Kropyvnytskyi, Bila Tserkva, Zhytomyr and Oleksandriia.

History

The history of right- and

Kiev in 1667 following the Truce of Andrusovo
.

South right-bank Ukraine (light green) as a vassal of the Ottoman Empire

Meanwhile, right-bank Ukraine remained in the Commonwealth until the

Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown it was divided into two voivodeships: Kiev and Bracław. In 1669 Hetman Petro Doroshenko allowed right-bank Ukraine to be part of the Ottoman Empire.[2] The southernmost Podolia
in the right-bank Ukraine was invaded by Ottomans in 1672.

Following the 1683 victory of the

guberniya ('governorate') of Little Russia
.

In the 19th century, the population of right-bank Ukraine was mostly Ukrainian, but most of the land was owned by the Polish or Polonized Ukrainian

.

Hetmans (1685–1699)

Notes

  1. ^ Ukrainian: Правобережна Україна, romanizedPravoberezhna Ukrayina

    Russian: Правобережная Украина, romanizedPravoberezhnaya Ukraina

    Polish: Prawobrzeżna Ukraina
    Slovak: Pravobrežná Ukrajina
    Hungarian: Jobb parti Ukrajna

References

  1. ^ Michał Szuster, Uniwersytet Śląski (2006). "Władysław IV Vasa; genealogia, heraldyka". Poczet.com (Internet Archive). Archived from the original on December 11, 2008. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
  2. ^ Kołodziejczyk, Dariusz (2004). "Introduction". The Ottoman Survey Register of Podolia (ca. 1681) Part I: Text, Translation, and Commentary. Harvard University Press. p. 3.
  3. . pp 117, 145–6, 148