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"New Russia" redirects here. For other uses, see New Russia (disambiguation).
 
Novorossiya (Russian: Новоро́ссия, Ukrainian: Новоросія; literally New Russia) is a historic area of lands also known in Polish as Dzikie Pola and now mostly located in southern Ukraine, in southern Russia, in Bessarabia and in Transnistria. The western part of New Russia (between the Dniester and the Dnieper rivers) was known as Dykra in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and subsequently the province of Yedisan in the Ottoman Empire, and was previously inhabited, as well as the central part, by the Nogai Horde. The Russian Empire gradually gained control over the area by peace treaties with Cossack Hetmanate and the Ottoman Empire at the conclusion of the Russo-Turkish Wars of 1735–39, 1768–74, 1787–92 and 1806–12. It also forcefully liquidated the Free lands of Zaporizhian Sich as their became inconvenient for Russian colonization. The colonization of the land at the end of 18th century was led by Prince Grigori Potemkin 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 peasantry mostly from Ukraine and fewer from Russia were transferred to cultivate what was a sparsely populated steppe. Also Catherine the Great invited European settlers to these newly conquered lands: Germans, Poles, Italians, Greeks, Serbs, and others. New cities founded during colonization included Novorossiysk, Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk), Nikolaev (Mykolaiv), Kherson, and Odessa. In modern terms it encompasses Donetsk Oblast, Luhansk Oblast, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Zaporizhia Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast, Kherson Oblast, Odessa Oblast and Crimea in Ukraine, Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai, Rostov Oblast, and the Republic of Adygea in Russia, Bessarabia and Transnistria. Politically and historically, people living to East of the region often have a more pro-Russian orientation. In the New Russia Russian is a common language in cities and sometimes outside of them, although Ukrainian is more dominant in small towns, villages and rural areas in general. In the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the pro-Russian Party of Regions gained a majority in the regions of Ukraine and represents the interests of mostly Russian speaking population and various socially-oriented political programs. [edit] References[edit] External links
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