The river is named asBog Fl[uss] on this 1791 Austrian map (in German).The river is named asBog on this 1788 French map showing theDnieper–Bug estuary (Liman).
While located in relatively close proximity, the river should not be confused withWestern Bug or Bug which flows in opposite direction towardsBaltics. The source of the Southern Bug is in the west of Ukraine, in theVolhynian-Podolian Upland, about 145 kilometres (90 miles) from the Polish border, from where it flows southeasterly into theBug Estuary (Black Sea basin) through the southernsteppes (seeGranite-steppe lands of Buh park). It is 806 kilometres (501 miles) long and drains 63,700 square kilometres (24,600 sq mi).[3]
On several occasions the river served as an international border. At least following the1768–1774 Russo-Turkish War, and more narrowly the Chyhyryn campaigns, the river became a border between the Imperial Russia and Ottomans. Some 200 years later between 1941 and 1944 duringWorld War II the Southern Bug formed the border between German-occupied Ukraine (Reichskommissariat Ukraine) and the Romanian-occupied part of Ukraine, calledTransnistria.
Herodotus (c. 484–425 BCE) refers to the river using itsancient Greek name: Hypanis.[4] During theMigration Period of the 5th to the 8th centuries CE the Southern Bug represented a major obstacle to all the migrating peoples in the area. In his workGetica,Jordanes calls the riverBogossola.[5][6] Mentioning of Bogossola could also be found in works ofGuido of Pisa.[6]
The long-standing local Slavic name of the river,Boh (Cyrillic: Бог),[2] according toZbigniew Gołąb as*bugъ/*buga derives from Indo-European verbal root*bheug- (having cognates in oldGermanic word*bheugh- etc. with meaning of "bend, turn, moves away"), with hypothetical original meaning of "pertaining to a (river) bend", and derivatives in Russianbúga ("low banks of a river, overgrown with bushes"), Polishbugajcode: pol promoted to code: pl ("bushes or woods in a river valley or on a steep river bank"), Latvianbauga ("marshy place by a river").[7] The Polish linguistJan Michał Rozwadowski was explaining that the name derived from the Indo-European root "water", "source", "swamp".[6] The 17th-century French military engineer and geographerGuillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan recorded the name of the river asBog.[8]
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From the 16th to the 18th centuries most of the south of Ukraine was under Turkish imperial domination and the colonists renamed the river using their language to theAq-su, meaning the "White river". Indigenous Slavic[citation needed] toponyms were re-established after the conquest of the Pontic region from Turkish domination in the 17th and 18th centuries.
On March 6, 1918, theCentral Council of theUkrainian People's Republic adopted a law on the "administrative-territorial division of Ukraine", dividing it into regional districts. One of these, Pobozhia (meaning lands of theBoh,Ukrainian:Побожжя), was in the upstream lands of the Southern Bug, near the source of the river.
The Varvarivskyi Bridge over Southern Bug inMykolaiv is aswing bridge (facilitatingship building) withEurope's largest span (134 m).[10] It is also the southernmost bridge over the river.
The river is technically navigable for dozens of kilometers up from its mouth; severalriver ports (such asMykolaiv) exist.
In 2011, plans were announced to revive commercial freight navigation on the Southern Bug upstream of Mykolaiv, to facilitate the increasinggrain export from Ukraine.[11] As of April 2018, freight navigation was renewed between the estuary and a newly built grain terminal in the village of Prybuzhany,Voznesensk Raion, in the center of theMykolaiv Oblast.
^Le Vasseur de Beauplan, Guillaume (1651). Golitsyn, Avgustin Petrovich (ed.).Description de l'Vkranie depvis les confins de la Moscovie jvsqu'avx limites de la Transylvanie [Description of Ukraine from the borders of Muscovy to the limits of Transylvania]. Bibliothèque russienne (in French). Paris: J. Techener (published 1861). p. 57. Retrieved2014-10-30.A trois lieues audessus de Douczakow [Ochakiv] est l'emboucheure du Bog où se trouve vne isle en forme de triangle, viron de demi lieue de long le trauers de Semenwiruk. [...] Au dessus de Semenwirut, il y a sur le Bog Winaradnakricza, qui est vne fontaine sur un précipice, lieu beau et propre à habiter, tant pour le bois qui est à commodité que pour les moulins qui s'y pourraient faire.
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