Chortitza

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Etymology

Via Plautdietsch or German, from Russian Хо́ртица (Xórtica) (cf. Ukrainian Хо́ртиця (Xórtycja)), the name of Khortytsia (the largest island in the Dnieper River).

Proper noun

Chortitza

  1. A village (or colony of several villages) founded by German- / Mennonite Low German-speaking Mennonites in 1789 in what is now Ukraine.

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