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==Etymology==

==Etymology==

{{Cquote|The word "Ukraine" means "at the border". And in all the [[Slavic]] [[language]]s, it doesn't imply which side of the border, at the border. Its borders have been defined differently. Those borders, aside from [[Crimea']] that Ukraine had upon its independence, were actually created by [[Adolf Hitler]] and [[Joseph Stalin]] in an agreement they made. So you've got [[the West]] in effect supporting a fight against [[Russia]] to preserve the heritage of Hitler and Stalin.|||[[Jack Matlock]]}}

{{Cquote|The word "Ukraine" means "at the border". And in all the [[Slavic]] [[language]]s, it doesn't imply which side of the border, at the border. Its borders have been defined differently. Those borders, aside from [[Crimea]] that Ukraine had upon its independence, were actually created by [[Adolf Hitler]] and [[Joseph Stalin]] in an agreement they made. So you've got [[the West]] in effect supporting a fight against [[Russia]] to preserve the heritage of Hitler and Stalin.|||[[Jack Matlock]]}}

[[File:Use of the word Ukraine in the 16th Century.jpg|400px|thumbnail|Use of the word Ukraine in the 16th Century]]

[[File:Use of the word Ukraine in the 16th Century.jpg|400px|thumbnail|Use of the word Ukraine in the 16th Century]]

According to the Historian Serhii Plokhy, "The word “Ukraine,” which today is used to define an independent country in the middle of Europe, has medieval origins and was first used by the Kyivan chroniclers of the twelfth century to define the areas of today’s Ukraine bordering on the Pontic steppes. In the second half of the seventeenth century the term “Ukraine” entered the international vocabulary as one of the names of the Cossack polity created in the course of the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–

According to the Historian Serhii Plokhy, "The word “Ukraine,” which today is used to define an independent country in the middle of Europe, has medieval origins and was first used by the Kyivan chroniclers of the twelfth century to define the areas of today’s Ukraine bordering on the Pontic steppes. In the second half of the seventeenth century the term “Ukraine” entered the international vocabulary as one of the names of the Cossack polity created in the course of the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–