Etymology and History
(Ukrainian: Південний Буг, Pivdennyi Buh; Ukrainian: Бог; Polish: Boh; Russian: Южный Буг, Yuzhny Bug, Ottoman Turkish: Aksu)
Herodotus refers to it as ancient Greek: Hypanis. During the Migrations Period the Southern Buh was an important obstacle to all the migrating tribes.
The local Slavic name of the river that existed from immemorial times was Boh (Cyrillic: Бог) which derived from word rich (Ukrainian: бaгата, bahata). The famous French military engineer and geographer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan depicted the river exactly as Boh Ruthenian (Ukrainian: Бог Руський, Boh Ruskyi).
Since 16th century most of the Southern Ukraine was part of the Crimean Khanate and Ottoman Empire and was called Aq-su meaning the White river.
Southern Bug is a Russian name that was established during the colonial period in Ukraine. The name is now the accepted one. It as a misnomer was given by the Russian geologist Vladimir Laskaryev in the beginning of 20th century.
On March 6, 1918 the Central Council of Ukraine adopted the law "For the administrative-territorial division of Ukraine" dividing Ukraine into numerous lands. One of those lands in the upper stream of the river was named "Boh land" (Ukrainian: Побожжя, Pobozhia). Previously in the 18th century there existed the Bohogard phalanx (Ukrainian: Бoгоґардівська паланка, Bohogardivska palanka) as part of the Zaporizhian Sich centered in the city of Gard (today - a tract near Yuzhnoukrainsk).
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