Abstract
This paper demonstrates a way to examine the transformation of the territorial shape of the region. The official symbols (flags and emblems) of modern administrative units of Ukraine were analyzed for the usage of heraldic symbols of historical regions that lost their administrative status a century before. The results confirm more or less constant symbolic reproduction of historical regions, but their spatial shapes has changed under the influence of new administrative boundaries. Simultaneously, in certain cases historical heraldry loses its former meaning and is involved into the development and strengthening of identities with new administrative regions rather than historical ones.
Highlights
A system of administrative regions, which roughly reflected physiographic, ethnographic, and economic spatial differences, existed on the territory of modern Ukraine during the 15th-16th centuries under different political regimes
This paper demonstrates a way to examine the transformation of the territorial shape of the region
The official symbols of modern administrative units of Ukraine were analyzed for the usage of heraldic symbols of historical regions that lost their administrative status a century before
Summary
A system of administrative regions (principalities, voivodeships, viceroyalties and governorates), which roughly reflected physiographic, ethnographic, and economic spatial differences, existed on the territory of modern Ukraine during the 15th-16th centuries under different political regimes. Former administrative regions ( widely known in Ukraine as historical, historical-geographical, or ethnographic regions) continue to exist in the people’s minds and are constantly reproduced in symbols and institutions Their names are reflected in the names of enterprises and companies (Gnatiuk, 2014; Gnatiuk & Melnychuk, 2019), settlements and neighbourhoods, brands and trademarks, beauty contests and universities, media and sports clubs, political parties and NGOs (Homanyuk, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020). They continue to live in national geographical and historical education and are revitalized in the schemes of economic and socio-geographical regionalization (Gnatiuk & Melnychuk, 2019) They are used like attractions for tourists, or like weapons by political actors in their races, and their heraldic symbols adorn modern emblems and flags of territorial communities. A name, appealing to the historical region, seems to increase the importance of the denotation, bring it to the interregional level, and artificially make it older (Homanyuk, 2017)
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