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Concept
Ukrainian nationalism
Summary
Ukrainian nationalism (Український націоналізм) is the promotion of the unity of Ukrainians as a people and the promotion of the identity of Ukraine as a nation state. The origins of modern Ukrainian nationalism emerge during the 17th-century Cossack uprising against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Ukrainian nationalism draws upon a single national identity of culture, ethnicity, geographic location, language, politics (or the government), religion, traditions and belief in a shared singular history, that dates back to the 9th century.
Nationalism emerged after the French Revolution while modern day Ukraine faced external pressure from the suzerainty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Tsardom of Russia and the Ottoman Empire but the National Identity dates back to the 9th century.
During the Iron Age, numerous tribes settled on the modern-day territory of Ukraine. In the first millennium BC, these tribes included the Cimmerians who settled the Dnieper river valley. On the Black Sea coast, the Greeks founded numerous colonies, such as Yalta. The Scythians, a semi-nomadic Iranic people who were from the Eurasian region known as Scythia, as well as Slavs and Varangians.
The Ukrainian Language is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. The Ukrainian language was formed by convergence of tribal dialects from a common Proto-Slavic language, mostly due to an intensive migration of the population from the 6th to the 9th century. The Varangians began referring to themselves as Rus as an identify separate from other East Slavic tribes.
During the 9th century the Varangians spread down the Dnipro River in the area of Kyiv and began to establish an identity as raids were made on Constantinople. During this time a religious identity began to grow.
While the Varangians were not of Slavic descent, the adoption of Orthodox Christianity by Vladimir the Great further strengthened the cultural links between the East Slavic tribes and created precursors to Ukrainian nationalism and identity such as a shared religious architecture.
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