Excerpt from In Galicia
Appendix, page 19. T Appendix, pages 22 and 23. I From the Russian word Ukraine, which signifies a borderland. In this case the Ukraine referred to is that part Of Russia which, in the sixteenth and seventeenth' centuries, constituted the debatable borderland, or, as we should say, marches, between Muscovy and Poland, and the Khanate Of the Crimean Tartars.
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