Maidan is an originally Persian word for a town square or public gathering place, used in many place names.
Maidan may refer to:
In history
- Maidan Nezalezhnosti ("Independence Square"), a city square in Kyiv, Ukraine
- Euromaidan, a 2013–2014 series of protests "on the Maidan", centered around Maidan Nezalezhnosti
- Revolution of Dignity (the Maidan Revolution), the result of the Euromaidan protests
- Maidan (2014 film), a documentary film about the Maidan Uprising
- Maidan, after Euromaidan and Revolution of Dignity happened, some media, politicians and later residents of post-Soviet countries began to call any mass protests in post-Soviet countries such as protests in Belarus in 2020-2021, protests in Kazakhstan in 2022, a «Maidan». Synonymous with the Colour revolution.
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
