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Etymology
Via Plautdietsch or German, from Russian Хо́ртица (Xórtica) (cf. Ukrainian Хо́ртиця (Xórtycja)), the name of Khortytsia (the largest island in the Dnieper River).
Proper noun
Chortitza
- A village (or colony of several villages) founded by German- / Mennonite Low German-speaking Mennonites in 1789 in what is now Ukraine.
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