Poltava

Poltava is a city positioned at the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the capital metropolis of the Poltava Oblast and of the encompassing Poltava Raion of the oblast. Poltava is administratively included as a town of oblast importance and does not belong to the raion. It continues to be unknown whilst Poltava become based, although the city changed into no longer attested earlier than 1174. However, for reasons unknown municipal government selected to have a good time the metropolis's 1100th anniversary in 1999.

The agreement is indeed an old one, as archeologists unearthed a Paleolithic dwelling as well as Scythian remains inside the city limits. The present call of the town is historically connected to the agreement Ltava that is noted inside the Hypatian Chronicle in 1174. According to the chronicle, on Saint Peter's Day 12 July of 1182, Igor Sviatoslavich, chasing hordes of the Cuman khans Konchak and Kobiak, crossed the Vorskla River close to Ltava and moved in the direction of Pereyaslav where Igor's military became positive over the Cumans. During the Mongol invasion of Rus in 1238 to 39 many cities of the middle Dnieper place were destroyed, probable such as Ltava.