Chortitza

English

Etymology

Via Plautdietsch or German, from Ukrainian Хортиця (Xortycja), the name of Khortytsia.

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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