Ukraine

The name given in Poland first to the frontiers towards the Tartars and other nomads, and then to the fertile regions lying on both sides of the middle Dnieper, without any very definite limits. The Ukraine was long a bone of contention between Poland and Ru ia. It was ceded to the Co acks by Poland in 1672, and was obtained by Ru ia about 1682. The country was divided, Poland having the west side of the Dnieper, and Ru ia the east. The whole country was a igned to Ru ia by the treaty of partition in 1795. See Poland .