Category: Ukraine

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Name:

Ukraine

Timeframe:

(1991 - Present)

Free space page:

Space: Ukraine

Wikipedia/WikiData:

English wikipedia Q212

Project / Team:

Ukrainian Roots

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Ukraine, Україна, transliterated: Ukrayina: a country in Eastern Europe. In the north, Ukraine borders with Belarus, Poland and Slovakia, on the southwest with Hungary, Romania and Moldova. Ukraine is divided into 24 provinces, two municipalities, and territorial autonomy - the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

There is not a protocol for categorization in Ukraine. For the time being, nest Wikitree profiles in the appropriate oblast. Suggested from Poland Project to create present day location which will nest any profile or page from any point in history. Parallel any historical villages created from Galicia (de) or Russia (ru).

1772 - 1918: Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria or Russian Empire
1917: 1920: Brief independence: Western Ukrainian People's Republic and Ukrainian People's Republic. (Boundary set up for Ukraine's independence in 1991.)
1921-1939: Western Ukraine was part of the Second Polish Republic or (Polish) "II Rzeczpospolita", while the eastern half belonged to the USSR/Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or (Russian) "Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик"/"Soyúz Sovétskikh Sotsialistícheskikh Respúblik". Soviet Union Category
1939-1940: USSR Occupation
1941-1945: All of Ukraine (except for the Chernivtsi Oblast) was occupied by Nazi Germany.
1945 to 1991: All of Ukraine was part of the USSR/Union of Soviet Socialist Republics until its independence in 1991. Soviet Union Category
Date of independence: August 24, 1991.