Editing Bug (river) (section)

==History==
According to [[Zbigniew Gołąb]], the Slavic hydronym ''Bug'' as ''*bugъ''/''*buga'' derives from the Proto-Indo-European verbal root ''*bheug-'' (with cognates in old [[Proto-Germanic language|Proto-Germanic]] ''*bheugh-'' etc. with the meaning 'bend, turn, move away'), with the hypothetical original meaning 'pertaining to a (river) bend', and derivatives in Russian ''búga'' 'low banks of a river overgrown with bushes', Polish ''bugaj'' 'bushes or woods in a river valley or on a steep river bank', and Latvian ''bauga'' 'marshy place by a river'.<ref>{{citation |first=Zbigniew |last=Gołąb |author-link = Zbigniew Gołąb |year=1992 |title=The Origins of the Slavs: A Linguist's View |url=https://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/39006 |location=[[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]] |publisher=Slavica |pages=258–260 |isbn=9780893572310}}</ref>

Traditionally (e.g., by the drafters of the [[Curzon Line]]), the Bug River has been considered the ethnographic border between the East and West as well as the border between [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] (Ukrainians, Belarusians) and [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] (Poles) peoples.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.lwow.com.pl/przes2.html|title= POLSKIE PRZESIEDLENIA - HISTORIA NIEZNANA|website= www.lwow.com.pl|access-date= 13 August 2018}}</ref> {{verify source|date=October 2020}}

The Bug was part of the frontier between the territories occupied by Austria, Russia, and Prussia after the [[Third Partition of Poland]] in 1795, the southern half of the eastern border of the [[Duchy of Warsaw]] and [[Lithuanian Provisional Governing Commission]] (1809–1815), [[Congress Poland]] and Russia proper (1815–1867), of the [[Vistula Land]] and Russia proper (1867–1913), and of the [[Regency Kingdom of Poland]] and [[Belarusian Democratic Republic|BPR]] (1917–1918). The Bug also formed part of the dividing line between German [[Wehrmacht]] and Soviet [[Red Army]] zones specified in a secret clause of the [[German–Soviet Frontier Treaty]] of 28 September 1939 following the September 1939 [[invasion of Poland]] in the [[World War II|Second World War]].