Sotnia

Sotnia (Ukrainian: Cотня, Template:Lang-cr) was a traditional division of the Cossack regiments from earliest records of the Zaporizhian Sich, and means 'a hundred'. It is equivalent to company (military unit).

During the Cossack service in the Imperial Russian Armies the typical regiment had five sotnias or squadrons. The term was used in the foot or cavalry Cossack regiments. The unit term was retained until the establishment of Soviet Union in 1922 and termination of the Ukrainian People's Republic and Free Don Cossack Oblast.

Kurin

During the Second World War, the basic combat unit of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was a kurin (in Ukraine literally means a village and also used for the 11th lowest Cossack rank), equivalent to a battalion of four to eight hundred members, divided into three or four sotnias. Kurin is term that was established by the cossacks.

Lower divisions

Each sotnia contained three or four chotas (singular chot - literally count; platoons), and each chot was assembled from three riys (singular riy (Ukrainian), literally 'a swarm'; Section or reenforced squad of 10 to 12 men). Every riy was usually equipped with one light machine gun, two or three other special weapons, and at least seven assault rifles.

Current usage

In today's Croatian Army there is a unit called satnija (equivalent of company) with about 100- 150 soldiers.

References

Mikaberidze, Aleksander, The Russian officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Savas Beatie, New York, 2005