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Stone Graves, orchids amid GraniteMarch 5, 2009 – 9:01 am
“This is the place where history comes to life”, a phrase acquires a new meaning here, in an area of 400 hectares called the Stone Graves nature reserve. The history of this place, perched on the edge of the grassland steppe between the Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions, goes back not decades, not even centuries but millions of years Khortytsia. Island of Freedom.June 5, 2008 – 6:49 am
Emperor of Byzantium Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos (9th century) was a cunning politician and diplomat, researcher and publicist. He left as heritage for his son not only Byzantium and the phrase “Divide and conquer”, but also several encyclopaedias and the treatise “On Governance of the Empire”. In this work, in the chapter about the road from “Varangians to the Greeks” for the first time in history Khortytsia is mentioned, the biggest island of the Dnipro River and the symbol of free Ukrainian Cossacks |
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