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  • Thumbnail for Cossacks
    The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic Orthodox Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia...
    169 KB (19,632 words) - 23:24, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zaporozhian Cossacks
    were Cossacks who lived beyond (that is, downstream from) the Dnieper Rapids. Along with Registered Cossacks and Sloboda Cossacks, Zaporozhian Cossacks played...
    48 KB (5,608 words) - 16:29, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Antonov An-225 Mriya
    Антонов Ан-225 Мрія, lit. 'dream' or 'inspiration'; NATO reporting name: Cossack) was a strategic airlift cargo aircraft designed and produced by the Antonov...
    78 KB (7,137 words) - 13:31, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orenburg Cossacks
    The Orenburg Cossack Host (Russian: Оренбургское казачье войско) was a part of the Cossack population in pre-revolutionary Russia, located in the Orenburg...
    5 KB (518 words) - 09:24, 12 April 2024
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    cossacks to garrison the settlements and frontier posts of the territory. By 1808 the Host had been organised into ten regiments of mounted cossacks and...
    5 KB (567 words) - 20:10, 30 January 2024
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    kubantsi), are Cossacks who live in the Kuban region of Russia. Most of the Kuban Cossacks are descendants of different major groups of Cossacks who were re-settled...
    55 KB (6,596 words) - 10:06, 30 April 2024
  • The repatriation of the Cossacks or betrayal of the Cossacks occurred when Cossacks, ethnic Russians and Ukrainians who were opposed to the Soviet Union...
    57 KB (7,613 words) - 11:49, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cossack Hetmanate
    The Cossack Hetmanate (Ukrainian: Гетьма́нщина, romanized: Hetmanshchyna; Polish: Hetmanat, Hetmańszczyzna; Russian: Ге́тманщина, romanized: Getmanshchina)...
    103 KB (10,686 words) - 16:04, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of the Cossacks
    history of the Cossacks spans several centuries. Several theories speculate about the origins of the Cossacks. According to one theory, Cossacks have Slavic...
    29 KB (3,981 words) - 18:03, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hetman of Zaporizhian Cossacks
    Hetman of Zaporizhian Cossacks is a historical term that has multiple meanings. Officially the post was known as Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host (Ukrainian:...
    20 KB (1,430 words) - 07:11, 15 May 2024
  • the name HMS Cossack, after the Cossack people of Eastern Europe, whilst another was begun but was cancelled while building: HMS Cossack (1806) was a...
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  • Thumbnail for Registered Cossacks
    Registered Cossacks (Ukrainian: Реєстрові козаки, Rejestrovi kozaky, Polish: Kozacy rejestrowi) comprised special Cossack units of the Polish–Lithuanian...
    15 KB (1,448 words) - 14:30, 21 April 2024
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    Shashka (redirect from Cossack saber)
    Russian and Ukrainian Cossacks adopted the weapon. Two styles of shashka exist: the Caucasian/Circassian shashka and the Cossack shashka. In 1834 the Russian...
    9 KB (1,136 words) - 17:56, 31 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Union of Cossacks
    Cossacks is a movement of Russian and Central Asian cossacks established at a conference in Moscow on 28 June 1990, which sought to unite the Cossack...
    3 KB (156 words) - 00:34, 21 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jewish Cossacks
    Of the different branches of Cossacks, the only one that documents allowing Jews into their society were the Cossacks of Ukraine. When Poland and Lithuania...
    18 KB (2,242 words) - 12:21, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bohdan Khmelnytsky
    August 1657) was a Ruthenian nobleman and military commander of Ukrainian Cossacks as Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, which was then under the suzerainty...
    58 KB (7,006 words) - 18:13, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Khmelnytsky Uprising
    The Khmelnytsky Uprising, also known as the Cossack–Polish War, or the Khmelnytsky insurrection, was a Cossack rebellion that took place between 1648 and...
    57 KB (6,476 words) - 14:00, 2 June 2024
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    Yesaul (category Military organization of Cossacks)
    romanized: osavul) (from Turkic yasaul - chief), is a post and a rank in the Russian and Ukrainian Cossack units. The first records of the rank imply that it...
    4 KB (410 words) - 15:28, 24 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ivan Mazepa
    relieve him as acting Hetman (military leader) of Zaporozhian Host (a Cossack state) and to replace him with Alexander Menshikov, he defected from his...
    36 KB (3,845 words) - 10:27, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Ukrainian Registered Cossacks
    the Ukrainian Registered Cossacks and approved the post of Hetman by its decree. Cossacks elected unanimously to this post a well-known scientist, Anatoliy...
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