Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin ƙarni, yankin ya kasance yana da ƙarancin jama'a daga ƙungiyoyi masu ƙaura kamar Scythians, Alans, Huns, Bulgars, Pechenegs, Kipchaks, Turco-Mongols, Tatars da Nogais. Bayan mamayewar Mongol na Kievan Rus '
, yankin ya mallaki 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.