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Southern Bug

Also known as Hypanis

The Southern Bug is a river of Ukraine that flows about 800 km south-east from Podolia to the Black Sea, entering the Dnieper–Bug estuary near Mykolaiv. Known to the Greeks as the Hypanis, it gave the Milesian colony of Olbia on its estuary access to the steppe. In the Middle Ages it bounded Podolia, contested by the Golden Horde and Lithuania.

Southern Bug — Image: George Chernilevsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Mentioned in 3 state histories

Olbia Pontica Olbia Duchy of Podolia

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Southern Bug. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/southern-bug
MLA: “Southern Bug.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/southern-bug. Accessed .
Chicago: The Epoch Institute. “Southern Bug.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/southern-bug.
Harvard: The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Southern Bug’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/southern-bug (Accessed: ).

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