THE LITTLE RUSSIANS AND COSSACKS. 



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the Vistula, and eastwards to the Donetz. They even extend beyond the Don, 

 reaching round the Sea of Azov to the Kuban valley and the Caucasus. On the 

 other hand, the Great Russians have occupied the upper course of nearly all the 

 eastern tributaries of the Dnieper, while the Rumanians have crossed the Lower 



Fig. 145. —Historical Displacements of Ukhania. 

 According to Dragomauoy- 



□ 



o. 



Ukranian Little Rnssiîi, Munknch Kraïna.. Ccssick Ukrania Little Russian 



Race. Fourteenth Century. Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries in 1649. Uetmanship, 1667—1765. 



Plobodian Ukrnnia, 



Seventeenth and 



Eighteenth Centuries. 



Polish tlkrania, 



Liphteenth 



Century. 



LuiiiJ 



Ziporop: Liberties, 



Seventeenth and 



Eighteenth Centuries. 



Black Sea Cossicks, 



JVineteenth 



Century. 



Dniester, Hence the Dnieper and the Dniester can only in a general way be 

 spoken of as the two essentially Little Russian rivers. 



The Little Russians and Cossacks. 



The terms Little Russia (Malo-Russia, Lesser Russia), Ukrania, Ruthenia, 

 have never had any definite limits, constantly shifting with the vicissitudes of 

 history, and even with the administrative divisions. None of these geographical 

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