The Wild Fields (Russian: Дикое Поле, Ukrainian: Дике Поле, Polish: Dzikie Pola) is a term used in the documents of the 16th and 17th centuries to refer to the sparsely inhabited steppes between the Don River on the east, the Upper Principalities on the north, and the left tributaries of the Dnieper and Desna on the west. In physical Geography, a steppe ( German, from степь - "a flat and arid land" степ - /stɛp/ тал - tal дала - /dɑlɑ/ pronounced The Don (Дон is one of the major rivers of Russia. It rises in the town of Novomoskovsk 60 Kilometres southeast from Tula, southeast The Upper Principalities (Верховские княжества is a term traditionally applied in Russian Historiography to about dozen tiny and ephemeral polities situated For the rocket see Dnepr rocket. For other uses see Dnieper (disambiguation. The region to the west of the Wild Fields was known as Dykra. Dykra (meaning "Wasteland" in Lithuanian) was the southern territory of the medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania near the Black Sea, presently shared
The Wild Fields were traversed by the Muravsky Trail, a warpath used by the Crimean Tatars to make war against and pillage Muscovy. Muravsky Trail or Muravsky Warpath (Муравский шлях Муравський шлях was a favourite invasion route of the Crimean Tatars during the The Crimean Khanate or the Khanate of Crimea (Qırım Hanlığı|قريم خانلغى Крымское ханство - Krymskoye khanstvo; The Grand Duchy of Moscow (Великое княжество Московское was a medieval Russian polity centered on Moscow between 1340 and The region was gradually settled by runaway peasants and kholops who made up the core of the Cossackdom. Kholops (Холопы were Feudally dependent people in Russia between the 10th and early 18th centuries The Cossacks (Каза́ки́ Kazaki; Козаки́ Kozaki; Kozacy are a group of martial people living in the southern Steppe regions of Eastern As soon as a process of colonization was afoot, the term "Wild Fields" gave way to more specific designations, such as Zaporizhia, Sloboda Ukraine, and (later still) Novorossiya. Zaporizhia ( Ukrainian: Запоріжжя Zaporizhzhya; Polish: Zaporoże or Dzikie Pola (Wild Fields or Savage Steppe Sloboda Ukraine (Слобiдська Україна translit Slobids'ka Ukrayina, Слободская Украина translit Novorossiya (Новоро́ссия literally New Russia) is a historic area now mostly located in southern Ukraine, in southern Russia, in Bessarabia
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