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Indo-European languages
Encyclopædia Britannica Article
"...They are descended from a single unrecorded language believed to have been spoken more than 5,000 years ago in the steppe regions north of the Black Sea and to have split into a number of dialects by 3000 BC. Carried by migrating tribes to Europe and Asia, these developed over time into separate languages."
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Kropyvnytsky was a Cossack frontier. In the 18th century. the city received the Magdeburg Rights, which was unique for the Russia. In fact, this was the last point of Europe against the Ottomans.
The Ukrainian steppes were the freest lands in Europe. Then it was a land of refugees: Ukrainian and Polish serfs, Dutch Mennonites, Orthodox Greeks, German Protestants, Russian Old Believers, Balkan Serbs, and so on.,
But in the first half of the 20th century millions of Ukrainians were murdered there. Country side is a desert now. Ukraine's tragedy is to be between two predators, the Germans and the Russians.
(google translate)
"Curse, curse of the steppes to the black valleys.
The fields were in perpetual exhaustion.
The blue sea no longer inspires our souls, -
God punished and cursed us in these steppes.
Only nomadic hordes look like locusts,
They travel in crowds like the Black Death."
1930s
E. Malanyuk, ukrainian poet
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