The Right-bank Ukraine is a historical and territorial name for a part of modern

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

on the right (west)

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of the Dnieper River, corresponding to the modern-day

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s of Vinnytsia,

Zhytomyr Zhytomyr ( ; see #Names, below for other names) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the Capital city, administrative center of Zhytomyr Oblast (Oblast, province), as well as the administrative center of the surrounding ...

, Kirovohrad, as well as the western parts of

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

and Cherkasy. It was separated from the

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during the Ruin. Right-bank Ukraine is bordered by the historical regions of

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and Podolia to the west,

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to the southwest, Yedisan and

Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia, formerly known as Aleksandrovsk or Oleksandrivsk until 1921, is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. It is the Capital city, administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zaporizhzhia ...

to the south, left-bank Ukraine to the east, and Polesia to the north. Main cities of the region include Cherkasy, Kropyvnytskyi,

Bila Tserkva Bila Tserkva ( ; , ) is a city in central Ukraine. It is situated on the Ros (river), Ros River in the historical region of right-bank Ukraine. It is the largest city in Kyiv Oblast (which does not include the city of Kyiv) and serves as the ...

and Oleksandriia.

History

Since the

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, the region formed part of the Khazar Khanate,

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, Golden Horde,

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and the

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. Right-bank Ukraine was the target of slave raids by

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in the Collins English Dictionary are a group of Turkic peoples across Eas ...

from the Black Sea steppes. The history of right- and left-bank Ukraine is closely associated with the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648–57. The territory was part of the

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under the House of Vasa until the Russo-Polish War triggered by Khmelnytsky's Treaty of Pereyaslav, 1654, with the Muscovy alliance. After the 13-year conflict, the victorious

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incorporated the left-bank Ukraine along with the city of

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in 1667 following the Truce of Andrusovo. OttomanNorth

Meanwhile, right-bank Ukraine remained in the Commonwealth until the

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in the late 18th century. As part of the Lesser Poland Province it was divided into two voivodeships:

and Bracław. In 1669 Hetman Petro Doroshenko allowed right-bank Ukraine to be part of the

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. The southernmost Podolia in the right-bank Ukraine was invaded by Ottomans in 1672. Following the 1683 victory of the

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powers in the Battle of Vienna, in 1699 the Treaty of Karlowitz returned those lands to the Commonwealth. During the 18th century, two Cossack uprisings took place. The Koliivshchyna was a major haydamak rebellion that broke out in right-bank Ukraine in June 1768. In 1793 right-bank Ukraine was annexed by the

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in the Second Partition of Poland,Orest Subtelny; ''Ukraine: A History''; University of Toronto Press; 2000. . pp 117, 145–6, 148 becoming part of the '' guberniya'' ('governorate') of Little Russia. In the 19th century, the population of right-bank Ukraine was mostly Ukrainian, but most of the land was owned by the Polish or Polonized Ukrainian

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. Many of the towns and cities belonged to the

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and had a substantial Jewish population, while the Polish-speaking nobility was mostly Roman Catholic. Most of the peasantry became Greek Catholic only in the 18th century, and after the Partitions of Poland, largely converted to Orthodoxy long before the disestablishment of the Unia in 1839. The right-bank Ukraine was subsequently divided into four provinces ( guberniyas), each with its own administration:

Kherson Kherson (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and , , ) is a port city in southern Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast. Located by the Black Sea and on the Dnieper, Dnieper River, Kherson is the home to a major ship-bui ...

and Podolia.

Hetmans (1685–1699)

* 1684–1689 * 1689–1692 * 1693–1699

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References

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History

Hetmans (1685–1699)

See also

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