Left bank Ukraine
The left bank of Ukraine ( Ukrainian Лівобережна Україна , Russian Левобережная Украина , Polish Ukraina Lewobrzeżna is) a historical name of the left (east) of the Dnieper lying part of the Hetmanate , Ukrainian from current Oblasts Chernihiv , Poltava and Sumy and the eastern parts of the Kiev Oblast and Cherkassy Oblast and the south of the Russian Oblast Bryansk .
The term first appeared in 1663 when Ivan Brjuchowezkyjs was elected hetman in order to better distinguish him from hetman Pavlo Teterja , who ruled the area west of the Dnieper . Ivan Brjuchowezkyj was the first known "left bank hetman of Ukraine" on the territory that was under Russian influence at the time . He resided in Hajach from 1663 to 1668 . In the east, the region bordered Sloboda-Ukraine (today Kharkiv Oblast ), which does not belong to the Hetmanate .
Until the middle of the 17th century the area belonged to Poland-Lithuania , since the Treaty of Perejaslav (1654) it fell - apart from the southernmost part - under the control of Tsarist Russia . This was later confirmed in the Treaty of Andrussowo (1667) and the Eternal Peace of 1686 between Poland-Lithuania and Russia. Under Russian rule, the left bank of Ukraine enjoyed a certain degree of autonomy within Russia as a Cossack hetmanate (from 1721 Russian Empire ). However, this was gradually withdrawn from it in the 18th century when the hetmanate was dissolved as an autonomous unit.
References and comments
- ↑ Orest Subtelny: Ukraine History . University of Toronto Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8020-8390-0 , pp. 117, 145, 146, 148
- ↑ In detail: Zaporizhian Cossacks in the English language Wikipedia, about the destruction of the Sitsch