Glossary of historical terms and names |
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| А | ||
| ataman | Cossack leader | |
| B | ||
| bandura | folk musical stringed instrument, so called "Ukrainian harp" | |
| bandurist | musician who played the bandura | |
| C | ||
| D | ||
| desyatin | old Russian measure, equivalent to 2.7 acres or 1.09 hectares | |
| duma ( pl. dumy) | Ukrainian folk ballad about Cossack life and heroic deeds | |
| E | ||
| eparchy | bishopric in Orthodox Church | |
| F | ||
| G | ||
| garnets | Ukrainian old uliquid and dry measure, some kind of ceramic or metal crock; garnets for liquids is equal to 3.272 litres. | |
| H | ||
| horilka | Ukrainian vodka | |
| I | ||
| J | ||
| K | ||
| kotz | Ukrainian carpet of special making, manufactured in Slobozhanshchina | |
| kotzar | kotz-maker, see kotz | |
| L | ||
| M | ||
| Muravsky Shlyakh | The main way, which lay via Wild Field territory (Slobozhanshchina) to Crimea. By this way Tatars led usually prisoners from Slav lands. | |
| N | ||
| O | ||
| osadchy | Cossack leader at the period of new settlement organizing | |
| P | ||
| protopop | rank in Orthodox Church | |
| protoiyerey | rank in Orthodox Church | |
| Q | ||
| R | ||
| Right Shore Ukraine | The Dnieper river was natural guiding line of Ukrainian lands. Therefore such parts of Ukraine were distinguished as Right ShoreUkraine, Left Shore Ukraine, Transdnieper region etc. | |
| Ruin | hard times in Right Shore Ukraine, destruction and impoverishment of people as a result of wars in period of 1670s | |
| rymar | harness-maker | |
| S | ||
| shlyakh | long way, road | |
| sloboda | settlement exempted from normal State obligations | |
| shynok | Ukrainian tavern | |
| T | ||
| Tzareborisov (Tzarev-Borisov) | The military settlement with fortress, which had been founded in XVI century, now settlement Chervony (Red) Oskol of Izyum District, belongs to health resort zone of Kharkov Region | |
| U | ||
| uyezd | administrative unit, part of guberniya (Russian province) | |
| Unia | Liublin's Unia (document): Ukrainian lands of Great Lithuanian principality (except Polissya and Beresteyshchyna) passed into the hand of Poland | |
| V | ||
| Volya (The Liberty) | term means the liquidation of serfdom in Russia | |
| Vorskla | river in Slobod Ukraine | |
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| Y | ||
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