In Slavic mythology[?]Crnobog (pr. Tser-nah-bog, to rhyme with There-are-not, in its Balkan[?] spelling) was the god of evil and darkness, in opposition to Bielbog[?]. His name means "The Black God" (Balkan Crno "black" and Bog "god", existing the word bog in many Slaviclanguages). Other spellings: Chernobog (in Latin characters, transliterated from Cyrillic).
... The clays, which contain layers of good coal and an abundant fossil vegetation, show that during the Miocene period Sakhalin formed part of a continent which comprised ...