Through Time and Space in Ukraine Quiz

Zboriv is located in Ternopil Oblast, in the western part of Ukraine. The city already existed before 1166, the time of its first mention.

The 1649 treaty was the result of military victories by the Ukrainian Cossacks, led by Khmelnytsky, against the Commonwealth forces. It established the autonomous Cossack territory as containing three palatinates and guaranteed many of the rights they fought for. However, the Catholic nobility of Poland refused to treat the Orthodox Cossacks as worthy enough of being admitted into the Senate, and so hostilities resumed one year afterwards.

Hadiach is located in the Poltava Oblast.

The Treaty of Hadiach aimed at transforming the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth into a Commonwealth of three nations, the third being the Ukrainian Cossacks. The Treaty was negotiated by Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky and two of his subordinates, including the future Hetman Pavlo Teteria. However, it aroused suspicion from the part of the Polish nobility and was viewed as an act of war by Muscovy, which retaliated by invading Ukraine.

Pereiaslav is located in Kyiv Oblast. A city of significance already from the princely era of Kyivan Rus', it was the place where Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Muscovite envoy Vasili Buturlin consulted concerning the alliance between the Hetmanate and Muscovy.

The exact provisions of the agreement remain unknown and they were interpreted in a radically different way by each side. The Cossacks viewed it as an agreement between two equal parties and mutually binding, being used to the Western modes of diplomacy. On the other hand, Muscovy, ingrained in the Mongol and post-Mongol way of conducting foreign affairs, viewed it as a submission. None of the two sides understood what it was getting into.

Chyhyryn is located in Cherkasy Oblast. A prominent city in the seventeenth century, Bohdan Khmelnytsky had served as its regimental commander before assuming the Hetman's mace.

The siege of Chyhyryn occurring in the 1670s, when the Ottomans, traditional foes of the Ukrainian Cossacks, saw an opportunity in the prolonged conflict between Poland, Muscovy and the various Cossack Hetmans, to increase their territorial holdings and revitalise their old dream of turning the Black Sea into a "mare nostrum", in a manner the ancient Romans had done with the Mediterranean. For all the devastation and carnage that the Ottoman invasion brought in Right-Bank Ukraine, they ultimately failed in their objectives.

Baturyn is located in the Chernihiv Oblast. The place was continuously inhabited from the Neolithic and was made a fortress into the times of the medieval Chernihiv Principality, but its contemporary name is first attested only in the Cossack era.

The most flourishing period of the city was between the Khmelnytsky Uprising and the 1708 sack. Apart from housing the majestic residence of Hetman Ivan Mazepa, it had a booming economy and a population of around 20,000. This all changed, however, when, on the orders of Russian Tsar Peter I, General Alexander Menshikov, captured the city. The temporary commander left there by Mazepa was broken on the wheel, Cossack notables were crucified and their bodies were thrown into the Dnipro River, civilians were ruthlessly massacred. The total death toll exceeded 10,000, and, most likely, it was a negligible component of the population that managed to survive. An once prosperous city was now reduced to a ghost town.

Bila Tserkva (meaning "White Church") was first founded by the Kyivan prince Yaroslav the Wise in the eleventh century. It is located in the Kyiv Oblast.

It first became a site of battle in 1626, but the most well-known Battle of Bila Tserkva was fought in 1651. Although the Ukrainian side, led by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, had the initial advantage, the desertion of the cavalry auxiliaries from Crimea proved beneficial to the Polish forces. The resulting Treaty caused much resentment, because of the stubborn refusal of the nobility to treat the Cossacks as an equal partner in the Commonwealth.

Khotyn is located in Chernivtsi Oblast.

It is most likely that the city was already settled by the time of the Kyivan state, but it came into prominence in the Late Middle Ages, when it was contested by various states. Most notable were the Ottoman attempts of encroachment into the Dniester area, where they had already reduced Moldavia to semi-vassalage, although they found it difficult to curb the faction of the local notables that leaned towards independence. The 1621 battle was a crucial defeat for the Turks and it also served to highlight the military potential of the Cossacks for protecting the Christian states of early modern Europe from their Islamic foes.

Hlukhiv is located in Sumy Oblast.

First mentioned as a town in 1152, it acquired an important status within the Rurikid Principality of Chernihiv before the thirteenth century.

The 1708 proclamation of an anathema against Mazepa occurred there, and it was a forced decision, because the city was at the mercy of the Russian Tsar Peter I.

After Russia occupied most of Ukraine, Hlukhiv was, for some time, the seat of the Little Russia Governorate, with "Little Russia" being employed in the official Tsarist discourse as a tool of banishing the autonomist tendencies associated with the name Ukraine.

Ochakiv is located in Mykolaiv Oblast. As mentioned in the question, the oldest human presence there is the Ancient Greek colony of Alektor, which means "rooster" in Greek. Interestingly, the habit of ritual sacrifice and communal feasting on chickens is mentioned by Byzantine sources of the Middle Ages, as being practiced by the Kyivan princes and their armed retinues, before Prince Volodymyr accepted Orthodoxy.

The Tatars increasingly raided the area in the Late Middle Ages, while the Moldavian princes, in a state of semi-vassalage to the Ottoman Turks, also coveted the shores of the northern Black Sea. However, the stunning expedition of Bohdan Hlynsky, descending from his Cherkasy estates with his regiment, thwarted them for a substantial amount of time.

Zhovti Vody is located in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. In ancient and early modern times, the area was sparsely populated, being part of the so-called "dyke pole" or "campi deserti", id est "Wild Fields". A village bearing this name being established only in the nineteenth century. In Ukrainian, the name means "Yellow Water".

The battle of Zhovti Vody was fought in 1648, when Khmelnytsky began his uprising, combining national, social and even religious causes and arguably changing the history of Eastern Europe. The Ukrainian victory was partly due to the military capabilities of Khmelnytsky himself and partly due to the timely support of the Crimean cavalry (contrary to the popular image, most Cossacks in the seventeenth century were musketeers, being unable to afford the expenses of maintaining a war horse).