→Ukraine history: Ukraine has been known by several names depending on the era: the medieval state of Kievan Rus (9th–13th centuries), Ruthenia (used in Western European sources for centuries), Malorossiya or Little Russia (Russian Empire era), and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian SSR) from 1922 until independence in 1991.
→old name for Ukraine: Ukraine has been known by several names depending on the era: the medieval state of Kievan Rus (9th–13th centuries), Ruthenia (used in Western European sources for centuries), Malorossiya or Little Russia (Russian Empire era), and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian SSR) from 1922 until independence in 1991.
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→Kievan Rus: Ukraine has been known by several names depending on the era: the medieval state of Kievan Rus (9th–13th centuries), Ruthenia (used in Western European sources for centuries), Malorossiya or Little Russia (Russian Empire era), and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian SSR) from 1922 until independence in 1991.
→Ukraine name origin: Ukraine has been known by several names depending on the era: the medieval state of Kievan Rus (9th–13th centuries), Ruthenia (used in Western European sources for centuries), Malorossiya or Little Russia (Russian Empire era), and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian SSR) from 1922 until independence in 1991.
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