Ukrainian historical regions

A list of the various regions of Ukraine and/or inhabited by Ukrainians 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 the Dnieper)
* Donbass ("Donets Basin")
* Black Sea Lands
* Crimea ("Krym")

In the Carpathian Mountains (see also Ruthenia, 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 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 ( _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 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)

References

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