Ka cika wannan jumla: A cikin ƙarnuka da yawa, mutane da yawa masu ƙaura kamar Scyth, Alans, Huns, Bulgars, Pechenegs, Kipchaks, Turko-Mongols, Tatars da Nogais ba su da yawa a yankin. Bayan mamayewar Mongol na Kievan Rus', yankin ya kasance ƙarƙashin mulkin Golden Horde har zuwa
Yaƙin Blue Waters (1362), wanda ya ba Algirdas damar da'awar shi ga Grand Duchy na Lithuania. Sakamakon Yakin Kogin Vorskla a 1399, magajinsa Vytautas ya rasa yankin ga Temür Qutlugh, khan na Golden Horde. A shekara ta 1441, yankin yammacin Wild Fields, Yedisan, ya mamaye yankin Crimean Khanate, wani bangare na siyasa da ke ƙarƙashin ikon Daular Ottoman mai fadadawa daga ƙarni na 16 zuwa gaba. Wild Fields kuma an ɗan zauna da Zaporizhian Cossacks, kamar yadda aka nuna a cikin ayyukan masanin ilimin tauhidi na Poland da kuma bishop na Katolika na Kiev Józef Wereszczyński, waɗanda suka zauna a can a ƙarƙashin yanayin da za su yi yaƙi da faɗaɗa ta Nogai Horde.