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Ukrainian legends

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Lech, Czech, and Rus

3 legendary brothers, each the mythical founder of the 3 Slavic peoples (Poles, Czechs, and the Rus'), appearing in the Wielkopolska Chronicle

Ukrainian cossack

Severyn Nalyvaiko

Ukrainian Cossack hetman

Battle on the Irpin River

Semi-legendary, supposed 1320s battle between Lithuania and Kiev

Correspondence between the Ottoman sultan and the Cossacks

Apocryphal letters from the Ottoman sultan demanding Cossacks to surrender with a defiant mocking Cossack response

Dmytro Vyshnevetsky

prince of Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth

Hetman of Ukraine

Zaporozhian Cossack polkovnyk (colonel) (early 1640s–1710)

Ivan Zolotarenko

Ukrainian Cossack leader (died 1655)