Jump to navigation Jump to search This list encompasses all rulers and leaders of what is today Ukraine, from ancient to modern times. The term “Ukrainians” is used according to the modern definition of “the inhabitants of the land Ukraine” not just those who identify with Ukrainian ethnicity. This article russian rulers wife contains original research. Scythia was a loose state that originated as early as the 8th century BC.

Little is known of them and their rulers. Most detailed description came down to us from Herodotus. The shores of Crimea were settled by Greeks since the 7th century BC. The kingdom was established around 480 BC.

In Eastern Europe the Great Migration Period kicked off with the descent of the Goths from the Baltic region into the territory of modern Ukraine, about AD 200. They either took over or assimilated with the local Slavic tribes. In 238, the Goths for the first time passed the Danube, and took to the Black Sea. According to Zakarius Rhetor and Priscus Rhetor, Patria Onoguria was a vulgar statelet in alliance with Byzantium established in 463 around Azov having been forced west upon the Akatziroi by the Sabirs who in turn were being attacked.