ako je 18 stolece kada Rusi naseljavaju Srbe u danasnjem Donbasu Novorusija ,onda si u pravu.Salim se, nisi
pa nastavljamao za tetku i tecu dzegere lekciju, trazili su english language, jako zanimljivo, kao istorijska citanka:
The population consisted of military colonists from hussar and lancer regiments, Ukrainian and Russian peasants, Cossacks, Serbs, Montenegrins, Hungarians, and other foreigners who received land subsidies for settling in the area.
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There was an initial endeavour to colonize the region with several ethnic groups, of which the most numerous were
Romanians and
Ruthenians (
Ukrainians).[
citation needed] East of the Southern Bug river, in the region formerly called
New Serbia, in 1757 the largest ethnic group were Romanians at 75%, followed by
Serbs at 12% and 13% others.
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After the annexation of the Ottoman territories to Novorossiya in 1774, the Russian authorities commenced a broad program of colonization, encouraging large migrations from a broader spectrum of ethnic groups. Catherine the Great invited European settlers to these newly conquered lands:
Romanians (from
Moldavia,
Wallachia and
Transylvania),
Bulgarians,
Serbs,
Greeks,
Albanians,
Germans,
Poles,
Italians, and others.[
citation needed]
In 1775, the Russian Empress
Catherine the Great forcefully liquidated the
Zaporizhian Sich and annexed its territory to Novorossiya, thus eliminating the independent rule of the Ukrainian Cossacks.
Prince Grigori Potemkin (1739–1791) directed the Russian colonization of the land at the end of 18th century. Catherine the Great granted him the powers of an absolute ruler over the area from 1774.[
citation needed]
The spirit and importance of New Russia at this time is aptly captured by the historian Willard Sunderland,
The old steppe was Asian and stateless; the current one was state-determined and claimed for European-Russian civilization. The world of comparison was now even more obviously that of the Western empires. Consequently it was all the more clear that the Russian empire merited its own New Russia to go along with everyone else's
New Spain,
New France, and
New England. The adoption of the name of New Russia was in fact the most powerful statement imaginable of Russia's national coming of age.
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