Sobolivka, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The territory of the Kharkiv oblast has been permanently inhabited since at least the late Paleolithic period (10, 000-12, 000 years ago) but archaeological evidence indicates a human (Neanderthal) presence as early as the Mousterian period some 80, 000 years ago. The territory was relatively sparsely inhabited until the 1630s, when large numbers of Ukrainians began to settle there before and during the Chmielnicki Uprising. Most of the settlers were migrants from the Dnieper region, many of whom were fleeing fighting between Cossacks, Poles and Tatars. They called the newly settled region the Sloboda Ukraine or Slobozhanshchina, as the area is still sometimes called, and ruled it from the newly established fortress-city of Kharkiv (founded 1656).