6. Vkrania quae et Terra Cosaccorvm cum vicinis Walachiae, Moldaviae, Minorisque Tartariae provinciis. Nürnberg: Johann Baptist Homann, ca. 1702-1720. COLLBN Port 163 N 125
This map from early 18th century is another one of the few with Ukraine as its title. This name refers to the land of the Cossacks who are also depicted in the cartouche. Cossacks (from the Turkic kazak, free man) were farmers, traders and soldiers in temporary tax-exempted borderlands between Polish magnates and Tatar chiefs. The Ukrainian Hetman state was founded 1648 in these steppes by Bohdan Khmelnytsky. It encompassed all central regions of present-day Ukraine. Cossack Ukraine was a new political entity that posed as a restauration of the old Rus' state. Already 1654 it became nominally a vassal of Russia. Some sort of Hetmanate existed till 1782, but as its political relations were renegotiated with the election of each new hetman its independence eroded. A previous map owner used the margins to create an alphabetical place name index.