. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 290 RUSSIA IN EUEOPE. names correspond exactly with the regions inhabited by the Malo-Russian race, which, grouped from the first in fluctuating confederacies, never enjoyed political unity. Apart altogether from the trans-Carpathian E-uthenians of Hungary, the other branches of the family, since the fourteenth century, remained long dis- membered between Poland and Lithuania. Those of the Dnieper had scarcely succeeded in acquiring a certain autonomy as a Cossack republic in the seven- teenth century, when they lost it by accepting the protection
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 290 RUSSIA IN EUEOPE. names correspond exactly with the regions inhabited by the Malo-Russian race, which, grouped from the first in fluctuating confederacies, never enjoyed political unity. Apart altogether from the trans-Carpathian E-uthenians of Hungary, the other branches of the family, since the fourteenth century, remained long dis- membered between Poland and Lithuania. Those of the Dnieper had scarcely succeeded in acquiring a certain autonomy as a Cossack republic in the seven- teenth century, when they lost it by accepting the protection of Muscovy. The Eig. 146.—Little Rcssian Type, Podolia : Peasant of the Village of name itself of Little Russia appears for the first time in the Byzantine chronicles of the thirteenth century in association with Galicia and Yolhynia, after which it was extended to the Middle Dnieper, or Kiyovia. Li the same way Ukrania—that is, "Frontier"—was first applied to Podolia to distinguish it from Galicia, and afterwards to the southern provinces of the Lithuanian state, between the Bug and Dnieper. LTnder the Polish rule Ukrania became pre-eminently the land of the Malo-Russian Cossacks. But Great Russia had also her "Frontiers"—that is, Ukranias—in one of which the Malo-Russian free colonies, or Slohodi, were formed. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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