Ukraine

For centuries Ukraine was called Rhutenia or Red Russ. Later it was called Ukraine. Maybe because it was really the border and wild region of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The steppes of Ukraine were known in Poland as "wild plains". And for centuries during which Ukraine was part of Polish territory, it was considered as such area as in the USA later was Wild West. Whoever in Polan-Lithuania had problems with law was escaping to Ukraine to join the Cosacks. Even in the anarchic Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth Ukraine was consdiered as region where are possible things which are impossible anywhere else.

Edited by Mosquito