The official name of the Cossack Hetmanate was Zaporizhian Host (, '). The historiographic term Hetmanate (, ', "Hetman state") was coined in the late 19th century, deriving from the word "hetman", the title of the general of the Zaporizhian Army. "Zaporizhian Host" means an "army of the Zaporizhia", where the Zaporizhia (meaning "beyond the rapids" in Ukrainian) is a historical and geographic region in Southern Ukraine centered at the Zaporizhian Sich as well as a general name of Ukrainian Cossacks as a political and military organization.