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There are other names in which people look for “Where the name of Ukraine come from?“. The word
“Little Rus“ (Malorosiya) appeared in the 13th century during the struggle against “independent”
churches that wanted to consecrate their own metropolitans, such as Novgorod. They were
“politely pointed out” that the only spiritual (religious) metropolis is Little Rus (Kyiv),
where one can receive the highest spiritual rank of metropolitan. In reality,
the word metropolitan is a representative of the metropolis. Initially, the metropolitan
who sat in Moscow was called the “Metropolitan of Kiev, Little and All Rus.”
All the kings in Rus', except the last Romanovs, were crowned in Kyiv. Only the traditions
of names have survived to this day. Church canonical ones are Sergiy, Oleksiy (ukraine pronunciation)
instead of the local ones Sergei, Alexei or Sergo and Serge.
The word Little Russia is also present on ethnic maps of the Russian Empire. For example, a map from 1897, where the “Little Russian ethnic group” ends in Astrakhan (5%). In era of the Romanov dynasty, the term “Little Russian dialect” appeared, which over time began to be called the southern Russian and western Russian dialects. Mikhail Gorbachev was mocked for the remnants of such a dialect in his words. Especially for the word “myshlenia“ (thinking) with the accent as in the Ukrainian “myslenia” (thinking). In general, remnants of this dialect are present in Russia where people pronounce “sho” (“what“ as simplified ukrainian “що“) instead of “che” “what“ as simplified russian “что“). As we can see, the word Little Russia does not define geographical boundaries and cannot be used in historical references about the territory. |
Other interpretations of | |
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Unfortunately, other versions of the Ukraine word origin have flooded the Internet,
despite the fact that they are not supported by historical documents.
They are based on logical conclusions, retellings close to the text and
the adopted text of the original. Everything except the original source.
We will be happy to investigate any other version of the Ukraine word origin, if it is based on a reliable historical source. |