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Novorossiya (literally New Russia) is a historic area now mostly located in southern Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
, in southern Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, in Bessarabia
Bessarabia

Bessarabia is a historical term for the geographic entity in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west....
 and in Transnistria
Transnistria

Transnistria, also known as Trans-Dniester, Transdniestria, and Pridnestrovie is a disputed region in southeast Europe. Since its declaration of independence in 1990, followed by the War of Transnistria in 1992, it is governed by the Unrecognized states Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic , which claims the left bank...
.

The western part of New Russia (between the Dniester
Dniester

The Dniester is a river in Eastern Europe....
 and the Dnieper rivers) was known as Dykra
Dykra

Dykra was the southern territory of the medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania near the Black Sea, presently shared between Ukraine and Moldova.During the reign of Khan Haci I Giray in the Anno Domini 15th century, the Crimean Khanate was endangered by the Golden Horde and the Ottoman Empire....
 in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was an Eastern and Central European state from the 12th /13th century until the 18th century. It was founded by Lithuanians, at the time one of the Lithuanian mythology Baltic tribes, whose initial lands covered Auk?taitija, the eastern part of present day Lithuania....
 and subsequently the province of Yedisan
Yedisan

Yedisan is a historical region in modern southwestern Ukraine and southeastern Moldova . The region lies to the north of the Black Sea between the Dniester and Dnieper rivers....
 in the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
, and was previously inhabited, as well as the central part, by the Nogai Horde
Nogai Horde

The Nogai Horde was a confederation of Turkic peoples nomads that occupied the Pontic-Caspian steppe from about 1500 until pushed south by the Russians during the 17th century....
.

The Russian Empire
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
 gradually gained control over the area by peace treaties with the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
 at the conclusion of the Russo-Turkish Wars of 1735-1739
Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739

Russo?Turkish War of 1735?1739, a war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, caused by intensified contradictions over the results of the War of the Polish Succession of 1733?1735 and endless raids by the Crimean Tatars....
, 1768-1774
Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774

The Russo-Turkish War of 1768?1774 was a decisive conflict that brought Southern Ukraine, Northern Caucasus, and Crimea within the orbit of the Russian Empire....
, 1787-1792, and 1806-1812
Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812

The Russo-Turkish War, 1806–1812 was one of Russo-Turkish Wars fought between Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire....
.






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Novorossiya (literally New Russia) is a historic area now mostly located in southern Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
, in southern Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, in Bessarabia
Bessarabia

Bessarabia is a historical term for the geographic entity in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west....
 and in Transnistria
Transnistria

Transnistria, also known as Trans-Dniester, Transdniestria, and Pridnestrovie is a disputed region in southeast Europe. Since its declaration of independence in 1990, followed by the War of Transnistria in 1992, it is governed by the Unrecognized states Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic , which claims the left bank...
.

The western part of New Russia (between the Dniester
Dniester

The Dniester is a river in Eastern Europe....
 and the Dnieper rivers) was known as Dykra
Dykra

Dykra was the southern territory of the medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania near the Black Sea, presently shared between Ukraine and Moldova.During the reign of Khan Haci I Giray in the Anno Domini 15th century, the Crimean Khanate was endangered by the Golden Horde and the Ottoman Empire....
 in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was an Eastern and Central European state from the 12th /13th century until the 18th century. It was founded by Lithuanians, at the time one of the Lithuanian mythology Baltic tribes, whose initial lands covered Auk?taitija, the eastern part of present day Lithuania....
 and subsequently the province of Yedisan
Yedisan

Yedisan is a historical region in modern southwestern Ukraine and southeastern Moldova . The region lies to the north of the Black Sea between the Dniester and Dnieper rivers....
 in the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
, and was previously inhabited, as well as the central part, by the Nogai Horde
Nogai Horde

The Nogai Horde was a confederation of Turkic peoples nomads that occupied the Pontic-Caspian steppe from about 1500 until pushed south by the Russians during the 17th century....
.

The Russian Empire
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
 gradually gained control over the area by peace treaties with the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
 at the conclusion of the Russo-Turkish Wars of 1735-1739
Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739

Russo?Turkish War of 1735?1739, a war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, caused by intensified contradictions over the results of the War of the Polish Succession of 1733?1735 and endless raids by the Crimean Tatars....
, 1768-1774
Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774

The Russo-Turkish War of 1768?1774 was a decisive conflict that brought Southern Ukraine, Northern Caucasus, and Crimea within the orbit of the Russian Empire....
, 1787-1792, and 1806-1812
Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812

The Russo-Turkish War, 1806–1812 was one of Russo-Turkish Wars fought between Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire....
. The colonization of the land at the end of 18th century was led by Prince Potemkin
Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin

Prince Grigori Alexandrovich Potyomkin-Tavricheski – ) was a Russian general-field marshal, statesman, and favorite of Catherine II the Great....
 who was granted the powers of an absolute ruler over the area by Catherine the Great. The lands were generously given to the Russian dvoryanstvo (nobility), and the enserfed
Russian serfdom

The origins of serfdom in Russia are traced to Kievan Rus in the 11th century. Legal documents of the epoch, such as Russkaya Pravda, distinguished several degrees of feudal dependency of peasants....
 peasantry mostly from Ukraine and fewer from Russia were transferred to cultivate what was a sparsely populated steppe
Steppe

In physical geography, a steppe , pronounced , is a grassland plain without trees . The prairie can be considered a steppe. It may be semi-desert, or covered with Poaceae or shrubs or both, depending on the season and latitude....
. Also Catherine the Great invited European settlers to these newly conquered lands: Germans
Germans

The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....
, Poles
Poles

The Polish people, or Poles , are a West Slavs ethnic group of Central Europe, living predominantly in Poland. Poles are sometimes defined as people who share a common Polish culture and are of Polish descent....
, Italians, Greeks
Greeks

The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
, Serbs
Serbs

Serbs are a South Slavs people living in the Balkans and Central Europe, mainly in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and, to a lesser extent, in Croatia....
, and others.

New cities founded during colonization included Novorossiysk
Novorossiysk

File:Black Sea ports -- Odessa, Sevastapol, Novorrisk.pngNovorossiysk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in southern Russia, the main Russian port on the Black Sea, in Krasnodar Krai....
, Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipropetrovsk

Dnipropetrovsk is Ukraine's third largest city with 1.1 million inhabitants. It is located southeast of Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central region of the country....
), Nikolaev (Mykolaiv
Mykolaiv

Mykolaiv , also known as Nikolayev , is a major city in southern Ukraine....
), Kherson
Kherson

Kherson is a city in southern Ukraine. It is the Capital city of the Kherson Oblast , and is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast....
, and Odessa
Odessa

Odessa or Odesa is the Capital of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major port located on the shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 ....
.

In modern terms it encompasses Donetsk Oblast
Donetsk Oblast

Donetsk Oblast is an Administrative divisions of Ukraine of eastern Ukraine. Its capital city is Donetsk. Historically, the province is an important part of the Donets Basin region....
, Luhansk Oblast
Luhansk Oblast

Luhansk Oblast is the easternmost Administrative divisions of Ukraine of Ukraine. Its capital city is Luhansk.Important cities within the oblast include: Alchevsk, Antratsyt, Bryanka, Kirovsk, Ukraine, Krasnyi Luch, Krasnodon, Lysychansk, Luhansk, Pervomaisk, Luhansk Oblast, Rovenky, Rubizhne, Sverdlovsk, Ukraine, Syeverodonetsk, Stakhano...
, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is an administrative divisions of Ukraine of central Ukraine, the most important industrial region of the country. Its capital city is Dnipropetrovsk....
, Zaporizhia Oblast
Zaporizhia Oblast

Zaporizhia Oblast is an administrative divisions of Ukraine of southern Ukraine. Its capital city is Zaporizhia.This oblast is an important part of Ukraine's industry and agriculture....
, Mykolaiv Oblast
Mykolaiv Oblast

Mykolaiv Oblast is an administrative divisions of Ukraine of Ukraine. The capital city of the oblast is the city of Mykolayiv....
, Kherson Oblast
Kherson Oblast

Kherson Oblast is an administrative divisions of Ukraine in southern Ukraine, just north of Crimea. Its capital city is Kherson. The area of the region is 29000 km?, its population is 1.12 million....
, Odessa Oblast
Odessa Oblast

Odessa Oblast, also written as Odesa Oblast is an administrative divisions of Ukraine of south-western Ukraine. The Capital city of the oblast is the city of Odessa....
 and Crimea
Crimea

Crimea or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea is an autonomous republic of Ukraine located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name....
 in Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
, Krasnodar Krai
Krasnodar Krai

Krasnodar Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia , located in the Southern Federal District....
, Stavropol Krai
Stavropol Krai

Stavropol Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia of Stavropol....
, Rostov Oblast
Rostov Oblast

Rostov Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia , located in the Southern Federal District. Rostov Oblast lies in the south of Russia with an area of 100,800 km? and a population of 4,404,013 making it the fifth most populous federal subject in Russia....
, and the Republic of Adygea in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, Bessarabia
Bessarabia

Bessarabia is a historical term for the geographic entity in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west....
 and Transnistria
Transnistria

Transnistria, also known as Trans-Dniester, Transdniestria, and Pridnestrovie is a disputed region in southeast Europe. Since its declaration of independence in 1990, followed by the War of Transnistria in 1992, it is governed by the Unrecognized states Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic , which claims the left bank...
.

Politically, people living in the region mostly have a pro-Russian orientation, and even in the parts of New Russia which are not in Russia today, Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
 is the most common language in cities, and Ukrainian
Ukrainian language

Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic languages of the Slavic languages. It is the official language of Ukraine. In some areas of Russia there are dialects, Balachka or Surzhyk, which are the Ukrainianized versions of the Russian language....
 in villages. In the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2006

The Ukrainian parliamentary election took place on March 26, 2006. Election campaigning officially began on July 7, 2005. Between November 26 and December 31, 2005 party lists of candidates were formed....
, the pro-Russian Party of Regions
Party of Regions

The Party of Regions is a Ukraine political party created in March 2001. According to the party?s leadership in 2002, from the creation of the party to the end of 2001 the number of members jumped from 30,000 to 500,000.The party ideologically defends and upholds the Minority rights of Russians in Ukraine and Russian language in Ukraine in U...
 gained a majority in the regions of Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
 which were once Novorossiya. In Moldova
Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south....
 a whole region named Transnistria
Transnistria

Transnistria, also known as Trans-Dniester, Transdniestria, and Pridnestrovie is a disputed region in southeast Europe. Since its declaration of independence in 1990, followed by the War of Transnistria in 1992, it is governed by the Unrecognized states Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic , which claims the left bank...
 declared its independence. The official language in the region is Russian, Ukrainian and Moldovan in its Cyrillic
Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic alphabet is a family of alphabets, subsets of which are used by five Slavic languages national languages as well as non-Slavic . It is also used by many other languages of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia and other languages in the past....
 form .

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