Zaporizhzhia

noun3

1. •
   An industrial city, the administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia urban hromada, Zaporizhzhia Raion and Zaporizhzhia Oblast, in south-central Ukraine, on the River Dnipro.
2. •
   An oblast in southeast Ukraine, also illicitly claimed by Russia. Administrative center: Zaporizhzhia.
3. •
   (historical) A geographic region south-central Ukraine, “beyond the rapids” in the lower reaches of the Dnipro River, base of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.