Arabic trace in Ukrainian history

Abstract

Eastern culture has always charmed the people between the Dnieper and the Don. Sometimes this interest was combined with enthusiasm, sometimes the Eastern history examples were cited with obvious negative connotations. Let's find out the amplitude of such appeals. One of the oldest chronicles of the land, The Tale of Bygone Years by Nestor, monk of Cave Monastery in Kiev has the first calling on the history of the Arab peoples, woven into the ancient history of the Ukrainians [1]. Thus, in the beginning the author recalls how the three sons of Noah divided the Earth after the Flood, referring to Syria, Arabia and Egypt as countries that were under the control of Shem and Ham, as opposed to Rus, coming from the kin of Japheth.