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class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• Established </div></th><td class="infobox-data">988</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• Disestablished </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1402</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Currency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Grivna" title="Grivna">Grivna</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="width:95%; text-align:center; margin:0 auto; display:inline-table;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:center; border:0; padding-bottom:0"><div id="before-after"></div> <b>Preceded by</b></td> <td style="text-align:center;border:0; padding-bottom:0;"><b>Succeeded by</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center; border:0;"> <table style="width:100%; text-align:center; margin:0 auto; border:0;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Alex_K_Yaroslav.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Kievan Rus'"><img alt="Kievan Rus'" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Alex_K_Yaroslav.svg/30px-Alex_K_Yaroslav.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Alex_K_Yaroslav.svg/45px-Alex_K_Yaroslav.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Alex_K_Yaroslav.svg/60px-Alex_K_Yaroslav.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="621" data-file-height="621" /></a></span> </td> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27" title="Kievan Rus'">Kievan Rus'</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;border:0;"> <table style="width:92%; text-align:center; margin:0 auto; border:0;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle; text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania" title="Grand Duchy of Lithuania">Grand Duchy of Lithuania</a> </td> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania_(1403%E2%80%931410).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Grand Duchy of Lithuania"><img alt="Grand Duchy of Lithuania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_the_Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania_%281403%E2%80%931410%29.svg/30px-Flag_of_the_Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania_%281403%E2%80%931410%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_the_Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania_%281403%E2%80%931410%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania_%281403%E2%80%931410%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_the_Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania_%281403%E2%80%931410%29.svg/60px-Flag_of_the_Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania_%281403%E2%80%931410%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="388" data-file-height="239" /></a></span> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Today part of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus">Belarus</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Principality of Chernigov</b> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Template:Lang-orv&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template:Lang-orv (page does not exist)">Template:Lang-orv</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Template:Lang-uk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template:Lang-uk (page does not exist)">Template:Lang-uk</a>) was one of the largest states within <a href="/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27" title="Kievan Rus'">Kievan Rus'</a>. For a time the principality was the second most important after Kiev. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Location">Location</h2></div> <p>Most of the Principality of Chernigov was located on the left bank of the river <a href="/wiki/Dnieper" title="Dnieper">Dnieper</a>, within the basins of the <a href="/wiki/Desna_(river)" title="Desna (river)">Desna</a> and <a href="/wiki/Seym_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Seym River">Seim</a> rivers. The principality was supposedly populated by mostly Slavic tribes of <a href="/wiki/Siverians" class="mw-redirect" title="Siverians">Siverians</a> and partially by the Dnieper <a href="/wiki/Polans_(eastern)" title="Polans (eastern)">Polans</a>. Later the territory of the principality extended to the lands of <a href="/wiki/Radimichs" title="Radimichs">Radimichs</a> and partially the <a href="/wiki/Vyatichs" class="mw-redirect" title="Vyatichs">Vyatichs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Drehovichs" class="mw-redirect" title="Drehovichs">Drehovichs</a>. The capital of the principality was the city of <a href="/wiki/Chernihiv" title="Chernihiv">Chernihiv</a> (Chernigov). Other important cities were <a href="/wiki/Novhorod-Siversky" class="mw-redirect" title="Novhorod-Siversky">Novhorod-Siversky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Starodub" title="Starodub">Starodub</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bryansk" title="Bryansk">Bryansk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Putyvl" title="Putyvl">Putyvl</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kursk" title="Kursk">Kursk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lubech" class="mw-redirect" title="Lubech">Lubech</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hlukhiv" title="Hlukhiv">Hlukhiv</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chechersk" class="mw-redirect" title="Chechersk">Chechersk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Homel" class="mw-redirect" title="Homel">Homel</a> (Gomel), Bilhorod (<a href="/wiki/Belgorod" title="Belgorod">Belgorod</a>), <a href="/wiki/Vyr" title="Vyr">Vyr</a>, and others. Ownership and influence of the Chernigov Principality reached far to the North (to the Murom-Ryazan Land) and to the South-East (<a href="/wiki/Tmutorokan_Principality" class="mw-redirect" title="Tmutorokan Principality">Tmutorokan Principality</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <p>According to the <i><a href="/wiki/Primary_Chronicle" title="Primary Chronicle">Primary Chronicle</a></i>, before the 11th century the principality was ruled by local tribal elders and <a href="/wiki/Voivode" title="Voivode">voivodes</a> from <a href="/wiki/Kiev" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiev">Kiev</a> who were appointed by the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Prince" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Prince">Grand Prince</a> to collect <a href="/wiki/Tribute" title="Tribute">tribute</a> from the local population, manage judicial trials, and defend the land from external enemies. In the years 1024–1036 the principality of Chernigov was passed under the administration of son of the <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_the_Great" title="Vladimir the Great">Vladimir the Great</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mstislav_of_Chernigov" title="Mstislav of Chernigov">Mstislav of Chernigov</a>, who came there from Tmutorokan. Together with Yaroslav the Wise, Mstislav ruled the Kievan Rus' establishing Chernigov as one of the most important administration centers in Rus'. Upon the death of Mstislav, Chernigov was incorporated into the realm of Kiev. </p><p>After <a href="/wiki/Yaroslav_the_Wise" title="Yaroslav the Wise">Yaroslav the Wise</a> the principality of Chernigov was passed to one of his sons, Grand Prince <a href="/wiki/Sviatoslav_II_of_Kiev" title="Sviatoslav II of Kiev">Sviatoslav</a>, who initiated the Chernigov branch of the <a href="/wiki/Rurikid" class="mw-redirect" title="Rurikid">Rurikids</a>. During the civil war of the Yaroslavichi, Chernigov was contested between sons of Svyatoslav and Vsevolod. By the decision of the <a href="/wiki/Liubech_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Liubech Congress">Liubech Congress</a> in 1097, the sons of Sviatoslav, <a href="/wiki/Oleg_I_of_Chernigov" title="Oleg I of Chernigov">Oleg</a>, Davyd, and their descendants, secured the principality. After that the principality obtained a certain degree of autonomy and was primarily secured after the Oleg's descendants. </p><p>The Principality was later split into three main apanage principalities: Chernigov, <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Novgorod-Seversk" title="Principality of Novgorod-Seversk">Novgorod-Seversk</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Murom-Ryazan_Principality" class="mw-redirect" title="Murom-Ryazan Principality">Murom-Ryazan</a>, while Tmutarakan, due to its remoteness, often became contested and eventually was overtaken. Murom and later the Ryazan principality drifted away from the influence of Chernigov and after some time was contested by the Principality of Vladimir. Nonetheless the influence of Chernigov princes remained large and they retained the title of Kiev <a href="/wiki/Grand_Prince" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Prince">Grand Prince</a> for some time. Chernigov was one of the largest economic and cultural centers of Kievan Rus'. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_counties">List of counties</h2></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ziemie_Czernihowsko-Siewierskie_w_XV_wieku.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Ziemie_Czernihowsko-Siewierskie_w_XV_wieku.jpg/300px-Ziemie_Czernihowsko-Siewierskie_w_XV_wieku.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="287" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Ziemie_Czernihowsko-Siewierskie_w_XV_wieku.jpg/450px-Ziemie_Czernihowsko-Siewierskie_w_XV_wieku.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Ziemie_Czernihowsko-Siewierskie_w_XV_wieku.jpg/600px-Ziemie_Czernihowsko-Siewierskie_w_XV_wieku.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4384" data-file-height="4189" /></a><figcaption>Land of Chernihiv in the 15th century</figcaption></figure> <p>The counties of Chernigov , according to the book "Lands of Chernihiv-Siveria", published in <a href="/wiki/Warsaw" title="Warsaw">Warsaw</a> in 1936 by Polish historian from Russia Stefan Maria Kuchinsky: </p> <ul><li>Oster</li> <li>Chernihiv</li> <li>Liubech</li> <li>Rechytsia</li> <li>Putyvl</li> <li>Bilhorod</li> <li>Rylsk</li> <li>Novhorod-Siversky</li> <li>Starodub</li> <li>Homel</li> <li>Propoisk</li> <li>Chechersk</li> <li>Mglin</li> <li>Briansk</li> <li>Trubetsk</li> <li>Karachev</li> <li>Novosil</li> <li>Yelets</li> <li>Mezetsk</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Chernigov" title="Prince of Chernigov">Prince of Chernigov</a> for list of rulers</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upper_Oka_Principalities" title="Upper Oka Principalities">Upper Oka Principalities</a>, counties along the <a href="/wiki/Oka_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Oka River">Oka River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Severia" 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title="Kievan Rus'">Kievan Rus'</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/List_of_tribes_and_states_in_Belarus,_Russia_and_Ukraine" title="List of tribes and states in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine">East Slavic / Rus' principalities</a> of the pre-Mongol period (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 880–1240)</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Beloozero" title="Principality of Beloozero">Beloozero</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Chernigov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Drutsk" title="Principality of Drutsk">Drutsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Galicia" title="Principality of Galicia">Galicia (Halych)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Galicia%E2%80%93Volhynia" title="Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia">Galicia–Volhynia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grodno" title="Grodno">Goroden (Grodno)</a></li> <li><a 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title="Principality of Pronsk">Pronsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pskov_Land" title="Pskov Land">Pskov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Putyvl" title="Putyvl">Putyvl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir-Suzdal" title="Vladimir-Suzdal">Rostov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Ryazan" title="Principality of Ryazan">Ryazan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rylsk,_Russia" title="Rylsk, Russia">Rylsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Slutsk" title="Principality of Slutsk">Slutsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Smolensk" title="Principality of Smolensk">Smolensk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Starodub" title="Starodub">Starodub</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir-Suzdal" title="Vladimir-Suzdal">Suzdal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Terebovlia" title="Principality of Terebovlia">Terebovlia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tmutarakan" title="Tmutarakan">Tmutarakan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Toropets" title="Principality of Toropets">Toropets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Trubetsk" title="Principality of Trubetsk">Trubetsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Turov_and_Pinsk" class="mw-redirect" title="Principality of Turov and Pinsk">Turov-Pinsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uglich" title="Uglich">Uglich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Vitebsk" title="Principality of Vitebsk">Vitebsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir-Suzdal" title="Vladimir-Suzdal">Vladimir (Suzdalia)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Volhynia" title="Principality of Volhynia">Volhynia (Volyn)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vshchizh" title="Vshchizh">Vshchizh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Yaroslavl" title="Principality of Yaroslavl">Yaroslavl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Zvenyhorod" title="Principality of Zvenyhorod">Zvenyhorod</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="1" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a 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Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polesia" title="Polesia">Polissia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Severia" title="Severia">Siveria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kryvbas" title="Kryvbas">Kryvbas</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Ukraine" title="Eastern Ukraine">Eastern Ukraine</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donbas" title="Donbas">Donbas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pryazovia" title="Pryazovia">Pryazovia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sloboda_Ukraine" title="Sloboda Ukraine">Sloboda Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_(region)" title="Zaporizhzhia (region)">Zaporizhzhia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Ukraine" title="Southern Ukraine">Southern Ukraine</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Budjak" title="Budjak">Budjak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yedisan" title="Yedisan">Yedisan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crimea" title="Crimea">Crimea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novorossiya" title="Novorossiya">Novorossiya</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Ukraine" title="Western Ukraine">Western Ukraine</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Che%C5%82m_Land" title="Chełm Land">Chełm Land</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carpathian_Ruthenia" class="mw-redirect" title="Carpathian Ruthenia">Carpathian Ruthenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galicia_(Eastern_Europe)" title="Galicia (Eastern Europe)">Halychyna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hertsa_region" title="Hertsa region">Hertsa region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lodomeria" title="Lodomeria">Lodomeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naddnistrianshchyna" title="Naddnistrianshchyna">Naddnistrianshchyna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bukovina" title="Bukovina">Northern Bukovina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Maramure%C8%99" title="Northern Maramureș">Northern Maramorshchyna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Podolia" title="Podolia">Podolia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pokuttia" title="Pokuttia">Pokuttia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prykarpattia" title="Prykarpattia">Prykarpattia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volhynia" title="Volhynia">Volhynia</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">States and tribes of <a href="/wiki/Classical_antiquity" title="Classical antiquity">classical antiquity</a><br />and the <a href="/wiki/Early_Middle_Ages" title="Early Middle Ages">Early Middle Ages</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cimmerians" title="Cimmerians">Cimmeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarmatians" title="Sarmatians">Sarmatia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dacia" title="Dacia">Dacia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taurica" class="mw-redirect" title="Taurica">Taurica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scythia" title="Scythia">Scythia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khazars" title="Khazars">Khazaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ono%C4%9Furs" class="mw-redirect" title="Onoğurs">Onoğurs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazarig" title="Kazarig">Kazarig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avar_Khaganate" class="mw-redirect" title="Avar Khaganate">Avar Khaganate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Great_Bulgaria" title="Old Great Bulgaria">Old Great Bulgaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruthenia" title="Ruthenia">Ruthenia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Principalities of <a href="/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27" title="Kievan Rus'">Kyivan Rus'</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Chernigov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Halych" class="mw-redirect" title="Principality of Halych">Halych</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Novgorod-Seversk" title="Principality of Novgorod-Seversk">Novhorod-Seversk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Kyiv" class="mw-redirect" title="Principality of Kyiv">Kyiv</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Terebovlia" title="Principality of Terebovlia">Terebovlia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Turov" title="Principality of Turov">Turov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Pereyaslavl" title="Principality of Pereyaslavl">Pereyaslav</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Volhynia" title="Principality of Volhynia">Volhynia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Mongol_Empire" title="Mongol Empire">Post-Mongol era</a> regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Horde" title="Golden Horde">Golden Horde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crimean_Khanate" title="Crimean Khanate">Crimean Khanate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Theodoro" title="Principality of Theodoro">Principality of Theodoro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Ruthenia" title="Red Ruthenia">Red Ruthenia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cherven_Cities" title="Cherven Cities">Cherven Cities</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carpathian_Ruthenia" class="mw-redirect" title="Carpathian Ruthenia">Carpathian Ruthenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Galicia%E2%80%93Volhynia" title="Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia">Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Subdivisions_of_the_Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth" title="Subdivisions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth">Polish–Lithuanian</a> regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Belz_Voivodeship" title="Belz Voivodeship">Belz Voivodeship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brac%C5%82aw_Voivodeship" title="Bracław Voivodeship">Bracław Voivodeship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chernihiv_Voivodeship" title="Chernihiv Voivodeship">Chernihiv Voivodeship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyiv_Voivodeship" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyiv Voivodeship">Kyiv Voivodeship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Podolian_Voivodeship" title="Podolian Voivodeship">Podolian Voivodeship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruthenian_Voivodeship" title="Ruthenian Voivodeship">Ruthenian Voivodeship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volhynian_Voivodeship_(1569%E2%80%931795)" title="Volhynian Voivodeship (1569–1795)">Volhynian Voivodeship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wild_Fields" title="Wild Fields">Wild Fields</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_the_Ottoman_Empire" title="Administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire">Ottoman provinces</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Ukraine" title="Ottoman Ukraine">Ottoman Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danube_Vilayet" class="mw-redirect" title="Danube Vilayet">Danube Vilayet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kefe_Eyalet" title="Kefe Eyalet">Kefe Eyalet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Podolia_Eyalet" title="Podolia Eyalet">Podolia Eyalet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silistra_Eyalet" title="Silistra Eyalet">Silistra Eyalet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yedisan" title="Yedisan">Yedisan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cossacks" title="Cossacks">Cossack</a> regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cossack_Hetmanate" title="Cossack Hetmanate">Cossack Hetmanate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Right-bank_Ukraine" title="Right-bank Ukraine">Right-bank Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Left-bank_Ukraine" title="Left-bank Ukraine">Left-bank Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sloboda_Ukraine" title="Sloboda Ukraine">Sloboda Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zaporozhian_Sich" title="Zaporozhian Sich">Zaporozhian Sich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Russia" title="Little Russia">Little Russia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Imperial Russian</a> regions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_Sea_Cossack_Host" title="Black Sea Cossack Host">Black Sea Cossack Host</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southwestern_Krai" title="Southwestern Krai">Southwestern Krai</a> / <a href="/wiki/Kyiv_Military_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyiv Military District">Kyiv Military District</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kyiv_Governorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyiv Governorate">Kyiv Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volhynian_Governorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Volhynian Governorate">Volhynian Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Podolia_Governorate" title="Podolia Governorate">Podolia Governorate</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bessarabia_Governorate" title="Bessarabia Governorate">Bessarabia Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kharkov_Governorate" title="Kharkov Governorate">Kharkov Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyiv_Governorate_(1708%E2%80%9364)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyiv Governorate (1708–64)">Kyiv Governorate (1708–64)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Serbia_(historical_province)" title="New Serbia (historical province)">New Serbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavo-Serbia" title="Slavo-Serbia">Slavo-Serbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Russia_Governorate_(1764%E2%80%931781)" class="mw-redirect" title="Little Russia Governorate (1764–1781)">Little Russia Governorate (1764–1781)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Russia_Governorate_(1796%E2%80%931802)" class="mw-redirect" title="Little Russia Governorate (1796–1802)">Little Russia Governorate (1796–1802)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volhynian_Viceroyalty" title="Volhynian Viceroyalty">Volhynian Viceroyalty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poltava_Governorate" title="Poltava Governorate">Poltava Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chernihiv_Governorate" title="Chernihiv Governorate">Chernihiv Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kholm_Governorate_(Russian_Empire)" title="Kholm Governorate (Russian Empire)">Kholm Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kharkov_Governorate" title="Kharkov Governorate">Kharkov Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taurida_Governorate" title="Taurida Governorate">Taurida Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novorossiya_Governorate" title="Novorossiya Governorate">Novorossiya Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yekaterinoslav_Governorate" title="Yekaterinoslav Governorate">Yekaterinoslav Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kherson_Governorate" title="Kherson Governorate">Kherson Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nikolayev_War_Governorate&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nikolayev War Governorate (page does not exist)">Nikolayev War Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gradonachalstvo" title="Gradonachalstvo">Gradonachalstvo</a> <ul><li>Odessa</li> <li>Izmail</li> <li>Nikolayev</li> <li>Sevastopol</li> <li>Feodosia</li> <li>Kerch-Yenikale</li> <li>Yalta</li> <li>Taganrog</li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Austria-Hungary" title="Austria-Hungary">Austro-Hungarian</a> provinces</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Galicia_and_Lodomeria" title="Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria">Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Bukovina" title="Duchy of Bukovina">Duchy of Bukovina</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">20th-century regions and states</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_People%27s_Republic" title="Ukrainian People's Republic">Ukrainian People's Republic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/West_Ukrainian_People%27s_Republic" title="West Ukrainian People's Republic">West Ukrainian People's Republic</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_State" title="Ukrainian State">Ukrainian State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lemko_Republic" title="Lemko Republic">Lemko Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hutsul_Republic" title="Hutsul Republic">Hutsul Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makhnovshchina" title="Makhnovshchina">Makhnovshchina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic">Ukrainian SSR</a></li> <li><a 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