Zaporizhia

• Zaporizhzhya, Zaporizhzhia

From the historical region of the same name, Ukrainian Запорі́жжя (Zaporížžja, “place beyond the rapids”), from за (za, “beyond”) + поро́ги (poróhy, “rapids”), plural of порі́г (poríh, “river rapid, threshold”). Compare Russian Запоро́жье (Zaporóžʹje).

• Hyphenation: Zapo‧rizh‧ia

Zaporizhia

1. An industrial city on the Dnieper river of south-central Ukraine, administrative centre of Zaporizhia province.
2. Zaporizhia province (oblast), in south-eastern Ukraine.
3. (historical) The region “beyond the rapids” in the lower reach of the river Dnieper in Ukraine, base of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.

• Zaporozhe, Zaporozhye, Zaporozhie
• Aleksandrovsk, Aleksandrovs’k, Alexandrovsk (historical)
• (province): Zaporizhia Oblast, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Zaporizhzhya Oblast

• Zaporozhian Cossacks (historical)
• Zaporozhets