Zaporizhia (region)

Zaporizhia (region)

Zaporizhia (Ukrainian: Запорожжя, Zaporozhzhya; Polish: Zaporoże or Dzikie Pola (Wild Fields or Savage Steppe), Russian: Запоро́жье, Zaporozhye) is a historical region in central Ukraine below the Dnieper River rapids (porohy, poroża, hence the name, literally "territory beyond the rapids"). During the 16th to 18th centuries Zaporizhia was a semi-independent quazi-republican Cossack territory with the centre at the Zaporizhian Sich.

It corresponds to modern Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, major parts of Zaporizhia and Kirovohrad Oblasts, as well as parts of Kherson and Donetsk Oblasts of Ukraine.