In Yelena Akhtiorskaya’s debut novel, “Panic in a Suitcase,” a Ukrainian-American family is torn between Odessa and the streets of Brighton Beach in New York.
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A bunch of places in Ukraine and Crimea end in “-opol”, from the ancient Greek word for city: polis. That’s no accident. Russia chose those names after conquering the Black Sea region from the Turks. But why?
Why do so many places in Ukraine and Crimea sound a bit Greek?
A bunch of places in Ukraine and Crimea end in “-opol”, from the ancient Greek word for city: polis. That’s no accident. Russia chose those names after conquering the Black Sea region from the Turks. But why?
