. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 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&q
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 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
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