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The origin of the name of Cherkassy city, located on the right bank of the Dnieper river, has always been of interest for the historians. The legends that were popular in the historical literature of the 16th — 18th centuries AD provided the following information: 1) the ethnic name Cherkass” appeared in the Middle Dnieper basin as early as the 12th century AD; 2) the Cherkassy fortress was founded in the 13th—14th centuries AD by the refugees-“Circassians” who had migrated to the Middle Dnieper basin from the Five Mountains area in the Northern Caucasus.

Keywords: Middle Dnieper region, Northern Caucasus, Cherkassy city, Circassians, Golden Horde period, border protection, well-armed cavalrymen

Information about author:

Oleg Bubenok (Kiev, Ukraine). Doctor of Historical Sciences. А. Yu. Krymsky Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. M. Grushevsky St., 4, Kiev, 01001, Ukraine
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