Right-bank Ukraine
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Right-bank Ukraine (Ukrainian: Правобережна Україна Russian: Правобережная Украина; Polish: Prawobrzeżna Ukraina), a historical name of a part of Ukraine on the right bank of the Dnipro, consisting of the modern day Volyn, Rivne, Vinnitsa, Zhytomyr, Kirvohrad and Kyiv region as well as part of the Cherkaska and Ternopil' region.
In 1667 under the Treaty of Andrusiv, left-bank Ukraine was incorporated into Muscovy, while right-bank Ukraine (except for Kyiv) remaind as part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Five years later in 1672, Podolia was occupied by the Ottoman empire, while Kyiv and Braclav came under the control of hetman Petro Doroshenko until 1681, when they were also captured by Turks. After the christian victory in the Battle of Vienna (1683), in 1699 the Treaty of Karlowitz, returned those lands to the Commonwealth. During the 18th century, two Cossack uprisings took place. In 1793 right-bank Ukraine was annexed to the Russian Empire in the Second Partition of Poland.
