Zaporizhia (region)

Zaporizhia (Ukrainian: Запоріжжя, Zaporizhzhya; Polish: Zaporoże or Dzikie Pola (Wild Fields or Wild Plain), Russian: Запоро́жье, Zaporozhye) is a historical region in central Ukraine below the Dnieper River rapids (Ukrainian: пороги porohy, Russian: пороги porogi) - hence the name, literally "(territory) beyond the rapids"). From the 16th to the 18th centuries the Zaporizhia region functioned as semi-independent quasi-republican Cossack territory centred on the Zaporizhian Sich.

Zaporizhia (region)

Zaporizhia (Ukrainian: Запоріжжя, Zaporizhzhya; Polish: Zaporoże or Dzikie Pola (Wild Fields or Wild Plain), Russian: Запоро́жье, Zaporozhye) is a historical region in central Ukraine below the Dnieper River rapids (Ukrainian: пороги porohy, Russian: пороги porogi) - hence the name, literally "(territory) beyond the rapids"). From the 16th to the 18th centuries the Zaporizhia region functioned as semi-independent quasi-republican Cossack territory centred on the Zaporizhian Sich.