Kachybejiv

Nicholas Zharkikh

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Kachybejiv, as we can see, is the only name present in all variants of the list of “Vytautas’ Black Sea estate.” In early texts, this name is written with the initial K, in later ones with the initial C (the spelling of Karavul also varies in the same way).

And what does this name mean? Researchers who have addressed this issue have derived it from the name of the Tatar prince Hadji-Bey.

The ancient name has survived to this day in a slightly modified form as Hadzhibejsky estuary near Odesa.

The question is not where to place this name, but what it meant.

First of all, it should be noted that European nautical charts (portolans) do not know the name Kachibei. Between the Dnieper and the Dniester, they have up to a dozen different names, but there is not a single one among them that could be attributed to Kachybejiv.

Therefore, we can assume that Kachybejiv at the time in question and long afterwards was just a tract without any special significance.