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13-687: The region lies roughly between the Southern Bug and Dniester Rivers, with the Western Bug also originating in the northwest of the highlands. The average altitude of the Podolian Upland is over 300 m (980 ft) with the maximum being a hill known as Kamula Mountain, at 471 m (1,545 ft). The surface is characterized by a combination of wide flat interfluves and deep canyon-like valleys (so called dales ) dissected into separate natural sub-regions: The Podolian Upland and

26-582: A (river) bend", and derivatives in Russian búga ("low banks of a river, overgrown with bushes"), Polish bugaj ("bushes or woods in a river valley or on a steep river bank"), Latvian bauga ("marshy place by a river"). The Polish linguist Jan Michał Rozwadowski was explaining that the name derived from the Indo-European root "water", "source", "swamp". The 17th-century French military engineer and geographer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan recorded

39-736: Is a navigable river located in Ukraine . It is the second-longest river in Ukraine. While located in relatively close proximity, the river should not be confused with Western Bug or Bug which flows in opposite direction towards Baltics . The source of the Southern Bug is in the west of Ukraine, in the Volhynian-Podolian Upland , about 145 kilometres (90 miles) from the Polish border, from where it flows southeasterly into

52-639: The Bug Estuary ( Black Sea basin) through the southern steppes (see Granite-steppe lands of Buh park). It is 806 kilometres (501 miles) long and drains 63,700 square kilometres (24,600 sq mi). Several regionally important cities and towns in Ukraine are located on the Southern Bug. Beginning in Western Ukraine and moving downstream, in a southeasterly direction, they are: Khmelnytskyi , Khmilnyk , Vinnytsia , Haivoron , Pervomaisk , Voznesensk and Mykolaiv . On several occasions

65-611: The Central Council of the Ukrainian People's Republic adopted a law on the "administrative-territorial division of Ukraine", dividing it into regional districts. One of these, Pobozhia (meaning lands of the Boh , Ukrainian : Побожжя ), was in the upstream lands of the Southern Bug, near the source of the river. The main tributaries of the Southern Bug are, from source to mouth (length in parentheses): In October 2020,

78-779: The Volhynian Upland are sometimes grouped together as the Volhynian-Podolian Upland . 49°01′39″N 27°51′22″E  /  49.0275°N 27.8562°E  / 49.0275; 27.8562 This article about a location in Ukraine is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Poland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Southern Bug The Southern Bug , also called Southern Buh ( Ukrainian : Південний Буг , romanized :  Pivdennyi Buh ; Russian : Южный Буг , romanized :  Yuzhny Bug ; Romanian : Bugul de Sud or just Bug ), and sometimes Boh River ( Ukrainian : Бог ; Polish : Boh ),

91-513: The Southern Bug upstream of Mykolaiv, to facilitate the increasing grain export from Ukraine. As of April 2018, freight navigation was renewed between the estuary and a newly built grain terminal in the village of Prybuzhany, Voznesensk Raion , in the center of the Mykolaiv Oblast . 46°59′N 31°58′E  /  46.983°N 31.967°E  / 46.983; 31.967 Guido of Pisa Guido of Pisa (died 9 July 1169)

104-596: The Southern Bug was stocked with three hundred and fifty kilograms of Hungarian carp and 50 kilograms of silver carp at Khmelnytskyi. The Varvarivskyi Bridge over Southern Bug in Mykolaiv is a swing bridge (facilitating ship building ) with Europe 's largest span (134 m). It is also the southernmost bridge over the river. The river is technically navigable for dozens of kilometers up from its mouth; several river ports (such as Mykolaiv ) exist. In 2011, plans were announced to revive commercial freight navigation on

117-504: The name of the river as Bog . From the 16th to the 18th centuries most of the south of Ukraine was under Turkish imperial domination and the colonists renamed the river using their language to the Aq-su , meaning the "White river". Indigenous Slavic toponyms were re-established after the conquest of the Pontic region from Turkish domination in the 17th and 18th centuries. On March 6, 1918,

130-667: The river served as an international border. At least following the 1768–1774 Russo-Turkish War , and more narrowly the Chyhyryn campaigns, the river became a border between the Imperial Russia and Ottomans. Some 200 years later between 1941 and 1944 during World War II the Southern Bug formed the border between German-occupied Ukraine ( Reichskommissariat Ukraine ) and the Romanian-occupied part of Ukraine, called Transnistria . Herodotus (c. 484–425 BCE) refers to

143-736: The river using its ancient Greek name: Hypanis. During the Migration Period of the 5th to the 8th centuries CE the Southern Bug represented a major obstacle to all the migrating peoples in the area. In his work Getica , Jordanes calls the river Bogossola . Mentioning of Bogossola could also be found in works of Guido of Pisa . The long-standing local Slavic name of the river, Boh ( Cyrillic : Бог), according to Zbigniew Gołąb as *bugъ / *buga derives from Indo-European verbal root *bheug- (having cognates in old Germanic word *bheugh- etc. with meaning of "bend, turn, moves away"), with hypothetical original meaning of "pertaining to

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156-657: The world as it was known to the Romans. It also included the only known text of the Carmen in victoriam Pisanorum . His map of the Western Roman Empire contains the inscription Carantano , which is probably the first cartographical mention of the Slovene territory. This biographical article about an Italian historian is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This biographical article about

169-610: Was an Italian geographer from Pisa . In 1119 he edited and updated the Geographica , a geographic encyclopedia first created in the eighth century by the Anonymous of Ravenna . It followed in the tradition of earlier geographies, such as Strabo's Geographica , Pomponius Mela 's De situ orbis , Claudius Ptolemy's Geography , and the Antonine Itinerary . Guido's book included text, as well as maps of Italy and

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