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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Actually it was The Ukraine meaning something like borderlands ( on Wikipedia ). When USSR fell and Ukraine gained its state independence, the term to describe the territory was depreciated by the state and adapted as its name.