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Caucasus Line Cossack Host

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Caucasus Line Cossack Host (Кавказское линейное казачье войско) was a Cossack host created in 1832 for the purpose of conquest of the Northern Caucasus. Together with the Black Sea Cossack Host it defended the Caucasus Fortified Defense Line from the inlet of Terek River to the inlet of Kuban River.

It consisted of the following regiments:

  • Vladikavkaz regiment
  • Volga regiment
  • Gorsky (Mountain) regiment
  • Grebensky regiment
  • Caucasus regiment
  • Kizlyar regiment
  • Labinsky regiment
  • Mozdok regiment
  • Stavropol regiment
  • Sunzhen regiment
  • Terek regiment
  • Urup regiment
  • Khoper regiment