This article won the 2021 Blue Europe Young Academics contest, thanks to its pedagogic qualities.
Addendum 21/03/2022: The paper was written and accepted before the war in Ukraine started. It is to be understood in this vein.
INTRODUCTION
Names often contain the true meaning of things; they genuinely recall a or simplify an abstract concept or idea: Ukraine literally means ‘on the border’ (u krajna). A border area, always contested and conquered by powerful neighbours.
