borysthanes

Updated: March 13, 2026

Their monoxyla, or one-oared canoes, loaded with silks, furs, and precious metals, issued from the Borysthanes, traversed the Baltic and the Euxine, the Oder and the Bosphorus, the Danube and the Black Sea, and carried on the commerce between the Turks and the Slavonians.

Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon) Raisin - The Haskalah Movement in Russia