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While primarily designed for the Albanian language, Plisi may be used to type almost any language using the Latin alphabet. Plisi is another alternative layout based on the U.S. mechanical keyboard and layout and supplemented with adaptations from the German T2 and QWERTZ Albanian layouts.
The Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 brought together Ukrainians of the USSR and Ukrainians of what was then Eastern Poland (Kresy), under a single Soviet banner. In the territories of Poland invaded by Nazi Germany, the size of the Ukrainian minority became negligible and was gathered mostly around UCC (УЦК [uk]), formed in Kraków. [7]
The Second Battle of Kiev was a part of a much wider Soviet offensive in Ukraine known as the Battle of the Dnieper involving three strategic operations by the Soviet Red Army and its Czechoslovak units [ 1 ] and one operational counterattack by the Wehrmacht, which took place between 3 November and 22 December 1943.
The National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War (Ukrainian: Національний музей історії України у Другій світовій війні) [a] is a memorial complex commemorating the German-Soviet War located in the southern outskirts of the Pechersk district of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, on the picturesque hills on the right-bank of the ...
The history of Ukraine spans back for over thousands of years. Prehistoric Ukraine, as a part of the Pontic steppe in Eastern Europe, played an important role in Eurasian cultural events, including the spread of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages, Indo-European migrations, and the domestication of the horse. [1][2][3] A part of Scythia in ...
Ukraine [a] is a country in Eastern Europe.It is the second-largest European country [b] after Russia, which borders it to the east and northeast. [c] [10] It also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova [d] to the southwest; with a coastline along the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast.
The four named battles are: First Battle of Kharkov, an October 1941 battle in which German troops captured the city. Second Battle of Kharkov, a May 1942 battle in which Soviet forces attempted to retake the city. Third Battle of Kharkov, a February 1943 battle in which Soviet forces were driven out again, and the Germans forces retook the city.
Contents. Modern history of Ukraine. Ukraine's borders were declared by the Ukrainian People's Republic delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919-20. Ukraine emerged as the concept of a nation, and Ukrainians as a nationality, with the Ukrainian National Revival which began in the late 18th and early 19th century.