page_title: Pokuttya
hierarchical_section_title: Pokuttya
caption_attribution_description: English: Place of Pokuttia (red) in Ukraine (grey). Green dots: Polish borders in the Middle Ages. Light green dots: Polish border 1921-1939. Yellow dots: Hungarian border from the Middle Ages until 1918 and from 1939 until 1944. Red little dots: Moldavian borders in the Middle Ages.
context_page_description: Pokuttya or Pokuttia is an historical area of East-Central Europe, situated between the Dniester and Cheremosh rivers and Carpathian Mountains, in southwestern part of modern Ukraine. Historically it was a culturally distinct area inhabited by Ukrainians and Romanians on the previously unpopulated borders between Lviv and Halych. Although the historical centre of the area was Kolomyia, the name itself is derived from the town of Kuty that literally means 'round the corner'. The region is now inhabited mainly by Ukrainians.
context_section_description: Pokuttya or Pokuttia (Ukrainian: Покуття, Romanian: Pocuția, Polish: Pokucie, Russian: Покутье) is an historical area of East-Central Europe, situated between the Dniester and Cheremosh rivers and Carpathian Mountains, in southwestern part of modern Ukraine. Historically it was a culturally distinct area inhabited by Ukrainians and Romanians on the previously unpopulated borders between Lviv and Halych. Although the historical centre of the area was Kolomyia, the name itself is derived from the town of Kuty that literally means 'round the corner' ("Kut" by itself means "corner"). The region is now inhabited mainly by Ukrainians.
caption: Pokutia
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