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This was a period of raids and fighting causing considerable devastation and depopulation in that area the area became known as the Wild Fields. They later became known as Zaporozhian Cossacks (Zaporizhia – the lands south of Prydniprovye, translate as "The Land Beyond the Weirs ").
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It was in this time that a new force appeared: the free people, the Cossacks. through what is today the city of Dnipro. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crimean Khanate agreed to a border along the Dnieper, and farther east along the Samara River (Dnieper), i.e. By the mid-15th century, the Nogai (who lived north of the Sea of Azov) and the Crimean Khanate invaded these lands. Īt the beginning of the 15th century, Tatar tribes inhabiting the right bank of the Dnieper were driven away by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The Tatars destroyed the monastery in 1240. Kipchak statues near the Historical Museum, Akademik Yavornytsky AvenueĪ monastery was founded by Byzantine monks on Monastyrskyi Island, probably in the 9th century (870 AD). Īmong other names it was also known as Polovytsia. The 2015 law on decommunization required the city to be renamed, and on the Ukrainian parliament passed a bill to officially rename the city to Dnipro. In 1926 the city was renamed after Communist leader Grigory Petrovsky. In 1918, the Central Council of Ukraine proposed to change the name of the city to Sicheslav however, this was never finalised. In some Anglophone media the city was also known as the Rocket City. The spelling Catharinoslav was found on some maps of the nineteenth century. Dniepropetrovsk / Dnipropetrovsk, also Dnipropetrovske according to the Kharkiv orthography 1926–2016.
Dnipro ( Ukrainian: Дніпро ( listen) previously called Dnipropetrovsk ( Ukrainian: Дніпропетро́вськ Russian: Днепропетро́вск, romanized: Dniepropetrovsk ) from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants.