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	{{~~for~~\|~~the modern subdivision~~ of ~~Ukraine\|Administrative~~ ~~divisions~~ of Ukraine}}		{{Short description\|List of historical regions in Ukraine}}
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	A list of ~~the~~ ~~various '''~~regions of ]~~''' and/or inhabited by ] and their ancestors throughout history~~.		This is a list of historical regions in present-day ].

			==Main historical regions==
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			! Coat of arms
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			\| style="width:5em;" \| Black Sea Littoral
			\| style="width:25em;" \| Other names: ], Ochakov Oblast, Khanschyna, ].
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			\| style="width:25em;" \| name originated from Turkish, meaning "borderland”
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			\| style="width:25em;" \| Other names: ] Land.
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			\| style="width:25em;" \| Other names: Donechchyna
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			\| style="width:25em;" \| Other names: Galicia, Cis–Carpathian (east of the ridge).
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			\| style="width:25em;" \| Other names: Duchy of Ruthenia, Ruthenia proper.
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			\| style="width:25em;" \| Other names: Chernihiv land, Chernihiv-Siveria.
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			\| style="width:25em;" \| Podolia means "Lower Land".
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			\| style="width:25em;" \| Carpathian region beyond the main Carpathian ridge (west of the ridge). Other names: Carpathian Ruthenia, Carpathian Ukraine, Carpatho-Ukraine, Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia, Sub-Carpathia, Trans-Carpathian Ukraine, Zakarpattia.
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			\| style="width:25em;" \| Other names: Vladimir, Volyn, ].
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	== Traditional regions ==		== Traditional regions ==
	The traditional names of the regions of Ukraine are important geographic, historical, and ethnographic identifiers.		The traditional names of the regions of Ukraine are important geographic, historical, and ethnographic identifiers.
			* ] ] Ukraine, ]
	* ] (''Volyn’'')
			** ] Land of Kyiv
	* ] (''Halychyna'')
			*** ] (east of Zhytomyr Oblast, Kyiv Oblast, Cherkasy Oblast), Central Ukraine
	* ] (''Podillya'')
			*** ], Land of Turov (north of Kyiv Oblast, east of Brest Oblast, west of Gomel Oblast), Northern Ukraine
	* ] (''Slobozhanshchyna'', "free land")
			** Land of Pereyaslav (predominantly Poltava Oblast and east of Kyiv Oblast), southern part of ], Little Russia, Central Ukraine
	* ] ("beyond the rapids" of the ])
			** ] Land of Chernihiv (predominantly Chernihiv Oblast, west of Bryansk Oblast, east of Gomel Oblast), northern part of ], Little Russia, Northern Ukraine
	* ] ("Donets Basin")
			** ] (Sumy Oblast, Kharkiv Oblast, Kursk Oblast, Belgorod Oblast)
	* ]
			** ] (mostly Kharkiv Oblast)
	* ] (''Krym'')
			* ] Ruthenia, Kingdom of Rus, Western Ukraine, Western Oblast, Lesser Poland
			** ] ] (Volyn Oblast, Rivne Oblast, west of Zhytomyr Oblast, north of Ternopil Oblast, north of Khmelnytsky Oblast), former principality
			** ], ], ], ] (east of Podkarpackie Voivodeship and Lublin Voivodeship), former principality and a constituent land of Ruthenia
			** Berestia (west of Brest Oblast, south of Podlaskie Voivodeship)
			** ] ] (Lviv Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ternopil Oblast)
			***]
			*** ] (]s and ]s, collectively ])
			*** ] (]s)
			* ] ] (Khmelnytsky Oblast, Vinnytsia Oblast, north of Odesa Oblast, west of Kirovohrad Oblast), Lesser Poland
			* ] ] (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, east of Kirovohrad Oblast), ], Central Ukraine
			* Pontic steppe, Wild Fields, New Russia
			** ] ("Donets Basin") (Donetsk Oblast, Luhanks Oblast), also known as Cuman Land, ], Eastern Ukraine
			** Azov Littoral (Zaporizhzhia Oblast, south of Donetsk Oblast, southwest of Rostov Oblast)
			** ], Southern Ukraine
			*** Over-Buh, Yedisan, Transnistria (Odesa Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast)
			*** ] (Budzhak) (southwest of Odesa Oblast)
			*** Tavria (Kherson Oblast)
			* ] (''Krym''), also known as Tavria, Taurida
			* ] ], Subcarpathian Rus, ] and many others
			** ]
			* Northern ] (Chernivtsi Oblast)

			==Contemporary regions==
	In the ] (see also ], ]):
			]}}{{legend\|RoyalBlue\|Blue – ]}}{{legend\|CornflowerBlue\|Light blue – ]}}{{legend\|Orange\|Orange – ]}}<br />Sometimes, more southern oblasts can be referred to as "Eastern Ukraine".]]

			Geopolitical, historical, and cultural factors play a role in assigning different areas of Ukraine to semi-official regions. The map on the right shows the approximate locations of some broad-brush regions. The terms "Central Ukraine", "Eastern Ukraine", "Southern Ukraine", and "Western Ukraine" occur in common usage. There is no clear definition of the boundaries of such regions, but rather a general reference. Lists of what may constitute such regions might include:
	* ] region ('']'')
	* ] region (''Boikivshchyna'')
	* ] region (''Hutsul’shchyna'')
	* ] (''Zakarpattia'')

			* ], a more vague term, often denotes what is not included in Western or South-Eastern definitions.
	Regions historically inhabited by Ukrainians (mostly with other nations), which are partly or wholly outside modern Ukraine:
			* ] may mean either the Don basin, Sloboda Ukraine, continental Taurida regions etc.
			* ] often includes the whole Taurida, the Kryvyi Rih basin, and the regions of Mykolayiv and Odesa oblasts. Alternatively it may include the Don basin, in particularly the adjacent land to the Azov Sea.
			* ] may mean either the historic region of Galicia, or may also include Volhynia, Podolia, Transcarpathia, and/or Bukovina.

			Other terms are rarely used – such as "South-western Ukraine", which can denote either ], or ]. Sometimes the term "South-eastern Ukraine" is used to define both regions of the Southern and Eastern Ukraine. Due to the shape of the country, in narrow definition, term "Northern Ukraine" is often used to denote either the bulge of ]/] oblasts or, in broader terms, the whole of ]. "North-western Ukraine" almost exclusively refers to the historic region of ]. This makes the term "North-eastern Ukraine" rarest of them all – it is either used as synonym for the narrow definition of Northern Ukraine, or as synonym for Sloboda Ukraine (particularly ]).
	* ] region
	* ] (''Kholm'') region
	* ] (''Podlasie'')
	* ] (''Polissia'')
	* ] (''Bukovyna'')
	* ] (''Budjak/Southern Bessarabia'')

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	== Other historic regions and names ==
			File:Central Ukr.png\|Central Ukraine
	* ] ({{lang-ru \|''Malorossiya'' or ''Malaya Rus'''}}), the name applied to Ukraine under the ]. Also, for historic reasons (note: left-bank and right bank refer to the bank of the river when facing downstream):
			File:Eastern Ukr.png\|Eastern Ukraine
	** ] (''Pravoberezhna Ukrayina'' or ''Pravoberezhzhia''), west of the ]
			File:Northern Ukr.png\|Northern Ukraine
	** ] (''Livoberezhna Ukrayina'' or ''Livoberezhzhia''), east of the Dnieper.
			File:Southern Ukr.png\|Southern Ukraine
	* ] ({{lang-ru \|''Novorossiya''}}), colony of the Russian Empire in the depopulated steppes, in the south-east of modern-day Ukraine ('']'', "the wild field")
			File:Western Ukr.png\|Western Ukraine
			</gallery>

	== Historical ~~Ukrainian~~ states ==		== Historical states ==
	{{main \|History of Ukraine}}		{{main \|History of Ukraine}}

	* ] (a state of ], ~~c. 880–thirteenth century~~);		* ] (a state of ]), (879–1240)
			* ] (1199–1349)
	* ] (''Halych-Volyn’'', 13th–fourteenth centuries)
	* ] (~~1555–1654~~)		* ] (1649–1764)
			* ] of the ] (1917–1918)
	* ] (1654–1783)
			* ] (1917–1918)
	* Army of Lower ] (Old Sich, 1654–1709)
			* ] (1918)
	* Free Lands of the Zaporozhian Host (New Sich, 1734–1775)
	* ] of the ] (~~1917–~~1918)		* ] (1918)
	* ] ~~of the Ukrainian State~~ (1918)		* ] (1918)
	* ] (1918~~–1919~~)		* ] (1918)
	* ] of the Ukrainian People's Republic (~~1918–1920~~)		* ] (1918–1919)
	* ] (~~1920~~		* ] (1919-1922)
			* ] of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1918–1920)
	* ] (1919–1991)
			* ] (1919–1991)
	* ] (1939)
			* ] (1920)
			* ] (1938–1939)
			* ] (1941)
			* ] (1941-1944)
			* ] (1991–present)

	== ~~References~~ ==		==See also==
			{{Portal\|Ukraine}}
	* Paul Robert Magosci, ''Ukraine: A Historical Atlas'', 1985. ] Press, Toronto. ISBN 0-8020-3428-4
			* ]
			* ]
			* ]

			== References ==
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			* Paul Robert Magosci, ''Ukraine: A Historical Atlas'', 1985. ] Press, Toronto. {{ISBN\|0-8020-3428-4}}
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This is a list of historical regions in present-day Ukraine.

Main historical regions

Coat of arms	Name	Description
	Black Sea Littoral	Other names: Yedisan, Ochakov Oblast, Khanschyna, Ottoman Ukraine.
	Budjak	name originated from Turkish, meaning "borderland”
	Bukovyna	Other names: Shypyntsi Land.
	Donbas	Other names: Donechchyna
	Halychyna	Other names: Galicia, Cis–Carpathian (east of the ridge).
	Kyiv land	Other names: Duchy of Ruthenia, Ruthenia proper.
	Siveria	Other names: Chernihiv land, Chernihiv-Siveria.
	Podolia	Podolia means "Lower Land".
	Sloboda Ukraine
	Taurida	Now Crimea
	Trans– Carpathia	Carpathian region beyond the main Carpathian ridge (west of the ridge). Other names: Carpathian Ruthenia, Carpathian Ukraine, Carpatho-Ukraine, Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia, Sub-Carpathia, Trans-Carpathian Ukraine, Zakarpattia.
	Volhynia	Other names: Vladimir, Volyn, Lodomeria.
	Zaporizhian Sich

Traditional regions

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

Over-Dnieper Ukraine, Great Ukraine
- Land of Kyiv
  - Right-bank Ukraine (east of Zhytomyr Oblast, Kyiv Oblast, Cherkasy Oblast), Central Ukraine
  - Polesia, Land of Turov (north of Kyiv Oblast, east of Brest Oblast, west of Gomel Oblast), Northern Ukraine
- Land of Pereyaslav (predominantly Poltava Oblast and east of Kyiv Oblast), southern part of Left-bank Ukraine, Little Russia, Central Ukraine
- Land of Chernihiv (predominantly Chernihiv Oblast, west of Bryansk Oblast, east of Gomel Oblast), northern part of Left-bank Ukraine, Little Russia, Northern Ukraine
- Severia (Sumy Oblast, Kharkiv Oblast, Kursk Oblast, Belgorod Oblast)
- Sloboda Ukraine (mostly Kharkiv Oblast)
Ruthenia, Kingdom of Rus, Western Ukraine, Western Oblast, Lesser Poland
- Volhynia (Volyn Oblast, Rivne Oblast, west of Zhytomyr Oblast, north of Ternopil Oblast, north of Khmelnytsky Oblast), former principality
- Chełm, Belz, San River, Przemyśl (east of Podkarpackie Voivodeship and Lublin Voivodeship), former principality and a constituent land of Ruthenia
- Berestia (west of Brest Oblast, south of Podlaskie Voivodeship)
- Galicia (Lviv Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ternopil Oblast)
  - Red Ruthenia
  - Prykarpattia (Boikos and Lemkos, collectively Rusyns)
  - Pokuttia (Hutsuls)
Podolia (Khmelnytsky Oblast, Vinnytsia Oblast, north of Odesa Oblast, west of Kirovohrad Oblast), Lesser Poland
Zaporizhzhia (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, east of Kirovohrad Oblast), New Serbia, Central Ukraine
Pontic steppe, Wild Fields, New Russia
- Donbas ("Donets Basin") (Donetsk Oblast, Luhanks Oblast), also known as Cuman Land, Slavo-Serbia, Eastern Ukraine
- Azov Littoral (Zaporizhzhia Oblast, south of Donetsk Oblast, southwest of Rostov Oblast)
- Black Sea Littoral, Southern Ukraine
  - Over-Buh, Yedisan, Transnistria (Odesa Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast)
  - Bugeac (Budzhak) (southwest of Odesa Oblast)
  - Tavria (Kherson Oblast)
Crimea (Krym), also known as Tavria, Taurida
Transcarpathia / Carpathian Ruthenia, Subcarpathian Rus, Carpatho-Ukraine and many others
- Maramureș
Northern Bukovina (Chernivtsi Oblast)

Contemporary regions

Geopolitical, historical, and cultural factors play a role in assigning different areas of Ukraine to semi-official regions. The map on the right shows the approximate locations of some broad-brush regions. The terms "Central Ukraine", "Eastern Ukraine", "Southern Ukraine", and "Western Ukraine" occur in common usage. There is no clear definition of the boundaries of such regions, but rather a general reference. Lists of what may constitute such regions might include:

Central Ukraine, a more vague term, often denotes what is not included in Western or South-Eastern definitions.
Eastern Ukraine may mean either the Don basin, Sloboda Ukraine, continental Taurida regions etc.
Southern Ukraine often includes the whole Taurida, the Kryvyi Rih basin, and the regions of Mykolayiv and Odesa oblasts. Alternatively it may include the Don basin, in particularly the adjacent land to the Azov Sea.
Western Ukraine may mean either the historic region of Galicia, or may also include Volhynia, Podolia, Transcarpathia, and/or Bukovina.

Other terms are rarely used – such as "South-western Ukraine", which can denote either Transcarpathia, or Budjak. Sometimes the term "South-eastern Ukraine" is used to define both regions of the Southern and Eastern Ukraine. Due to the shape of the country, in narrow definition, term "Northern Ukraine" is often used to denote either the bulge of Chernihiv/Sumy oblasts or, in broader terms, the whole of Polesia. "North-western Ukraine" almost exclusively refers to the historic region of Volhynia. This makes the term "North-eastern Ukraine" rarest of them all – it is either used as synonym for the narrow definition of Northern Ukraine, or as synonym for Sloboda Ukraine (particularly Sumy Oblast).

Central Ukraine
Eastern Ukraine
Northern Ukraine
Southern Ukraine
Western Ukraine

Historical states

Main article: History of Ukraine

Kievan Rus (a state of Early East Slavs), (879–1240)
Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia (1199–1349)
Cossack Hetmanate (1649–1764)
Central Rada of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1918)
Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets (1917–1918)
Odesa Soviet Republic (1918)
Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic (1918)
Ukrainian Soviet Republic (1918)
Hetmanate of the Ukrainian State (1918)
West Ukrainian People's Republic (1918–1919)
Kholodny Yar Republic (1919-1922)
Directorate of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1918–1920)
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919–1991)
Galician Soviet Socialist Republic (1920)
Carpatho-Ukraine (1938–1939)
Ukrainian national government (1941)
Reichskommissariat Ukraine (1941-1944)
Ukraine (1991–present)

References

Русина О. В. Сіверська земля // Енциклопедія історії України: у 10 т. / редкол.: В. А. Смолій (голова) та ін.; Інститут історії України НАН

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

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Geographical regions	Central Ukraine / Dnieper Ukraine Left-bank Ukraine Right-bank Ukraine Polissia Siveria Kryvbas Eastern Ukraine Donbas Pryazovia Sloboda Ukraine Zaporizhzhia Southern Ukraine Budjak Yedisan Crimea Novorossiya Western Ukraine Chełm Land Carpathian Ruthenia Halychyna Hertsa region Lodomeria Naddnistrianshchyna Northern Bukovina Northern Maramorshchyna Podolia Pokuttia Prykarpattia Volhynia
States and tribes of classical antiquity and the Early Middle Ages	Cimmeria Sarmatia Dacia Taurica Scythia Khazaria Onoğurs Kazarig Avar Khaganate Old Great Bulgaria Ruthenia
Principalities of Kyivan Rus'	Chernigov Halych Novhorod-Seversk Kyiv Terebovlia Turov Pereyaslav Volhynia
Post-Mongol era regions	Golden Horde Crimean Khanate Principality of Theodoro Red Ruthenia Cherven Cities Carpathian Ruthenia Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
Polish–Lithuanian regions	Belz Voivodeship Bracław Voivodeship Chernihiv Voivodeship Kyiv Voivodeship Podolian Voivodeship Ruthenian Voivodeship Volhynian Voivodeship Wild Fields
Ottoman provinces	Ottoman Ukraine Danube Vilayet Kefe Eyalet Podolia Eyalet Silistra Eyalet Yedisan
Cossack regions	Cossack Hetmanate Right-bank Ukraine Left-bank Ukraine Sloboda Ukraine Zaporozhian Sich Little Russia
Imperial Russian regions	Black Sea Cossack Host Southwestern Krai / Kyiv Military District Kyiv Governorate Volhynian Governorate Podolia Governorate Bessarabia Governorate Kharkov Governorate Kyiv Governorate (1708–64) New Serbia Slavo-Serbia Little Russia Governorate (1764–1781) Little Russia Governorate (1796–1802) Volhynian Viceroyalty Poltava Governorate Chernihiv Governorate Kholm Governorate Kharkov Governorate Taurida Governorate Novorossiya Governorate Yekaterinoslav Governorate Kherson Governorate Nikolayev War Governorate Gradonachalstvo Odessa Izmail Nikolayev Sevastopol Feodosia Kerch-Yenikale Yalta Taganrog
Austro-Hungarian provinces	Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Duchy of Bukovina
20th-century regions and states	Ukrainian People's Republic West Ukrainian People's Republic Ukrainian State Lemko Republic Hutsul Republic Makhnovshchina Ukrainian SSR Moldavian ASSR Drohobych Oblast Izmail Oblast Crimean Oblast Lviv Voivodeship Ternopil Voivodeship Volyn Voivodeship Stanyslaviv Voivodeship Carpatho-Ukraine Governorate of Subcarpathia Kharkiv Governorate Reichskommissariat Ukraine Distrikt Galizien
Ethno-Ukrainian regions abroad	Green Ukraine Grey Ukraine Kholm Kuban Lemko Region Southern Maramorshchyna Priashiv Sian River Yellow Ukraine

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