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    Empire endowed Cossacks with certain special privileges in return for the military duty to serve in the irregular troops: Zaporozhian Cossacks were mostly...
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    were Cossacks who lived beyond (that is, downstream from) the Dnieper Rapids. Along with Registered Cossacks and Sloboda Cossacks, Zaporozhian Cossacks played...
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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...
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    an administrative subdivision of Cossacks in the Russian Empire. Earlier the term viisko (host) referred to Cossack organizations in their historical...
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  • The repatriation of the Cossacks or betrayal of the Cossacks occurred when Cossacks, ethnic Russians and Ukrainians who were opposed to the Soviet Union...
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    romanized: dontsi), are Cossacks who settled along the middle and lower Don. Historically, they lived within the former Don Cossack Host (Russian: Донское...
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  • may also refer to: The Cossacks (novel), by Leo Tolstoy The Cossacks (1928 film), an American silent drama film The Cossacks (1960 film), starring Edmund...
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    Elected Cossacks (Ukrainian: виборні козаки) and Helper Cossacks (Ukrainian: підпомічники). Cossack privileges were preserved only for elected Cossacks, who...
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    starszy ("elder") of the registered cossacks, was Jan Badowski [uk]. The registered Cossacks were the only military Cossack formation recognized by the Polish–Lithuanian...
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    The Terek Cossack Host was a Cossack host created in 1577 from free Cossacks who resettled from the Volga to the Terek River. The local aboriginal Terek...
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    the Zaporozhian Cossacks is a painting by Ilya Repin. It is also known as Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto and Cossacks are Writing a Letter...
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    The Povolzyhe Cossacks or Volga Cossacks (Russian: Волжские казаки) were free Cossack communities in Russia which were recorded in sources from the 16th...
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    history of the Cossacks spans several centuries. Several theories speculate about the origins of the Cossacks. According to one theory, Cossacks have Slavic...
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    3. GSC Game World. "Cossacks 3". Cossacks 3. Retrieved 26 February 2020. "Cossacks 3". Scammell, David (19 July 2016). "Cossacks 3 releases on PC in September"...
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    Baikal Cossacks were Cossacks of the Transbaikal Cossack Host (Russian: Забайка́льское каза́чье во́йско); a Cossack host formed in 1851 in the areas beyond...
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  • standalone. Cossacks: Back to War adds two new nations (Switzerland and Hungary) to the choices from Cossacks: European Wars and Cossacks: Art of War...
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    Steppe Cossacks. Officers wore silver epaulettes and braid. High fleece hats were worn on occasion, with crimson cloth tops. Until 1908 cossacks from all...
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  • The Cossacks Motorcycle Club or Cossacks MC are an American outlaw motorcycle club. Said to be one of the largest outlaw biker groups in the state of Texas...
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    Siberian Cossacks were Cossacks who settled in the Siberian region of Russia from the end of the 16th century, following Yermak Timofeyevich's conquest...
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    (Ukrainian) lands where the Cossacks lived, the target of Cossacks uprisings changed as well. The origins of the first Cossacks are disputed. Traditional...
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    Cossack songs are folk songs which were created by Cossacks. Dnipropetrovsk Cossack songs (Ukrainian: Козацькі пісні Дніпропетровщини), the Zaporozhian...
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    Of the different branches of Cossacks, the only one that is documented allowing Jews into their society were the Cossacks of Ukraine. When Poland and Lithuania...
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    kissels, brews, and Iryan, a Cossack variant of ayran from suzma. Cossacks use bowls and wooden spoons for cutlery. Cossacks eat three times a day: breakfast...
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    Orenburg Cossack Host with 2,000 men. In 1773–1774, the Orenburg Cossacks took part in Yemelyan Pugachev's insurrection. In 1798, all of the Cossack settlements...
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    led to the creation of a Cossack Hetmanate in Ukraine. Under the command of hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, the Zaporozhian Cossacks, allied with the Crimean...
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    week long siege, the rebel Cossacks were forced to capitulate on 3 August 1638. Like the year before, some registered Cossacks joined the rebels, while...
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    Correspondence between the Ottoman sultan and the Cossacks, also variously known as the Correspondence between the Cossacks and the Ottoman/Turkish sultan, is a collection...
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    Astrakhan Cossack Host (Russian: Астраханское казачье войско) was a Cossack host of Imperial Russia drawn from the Cossacks of the Lower Volga region...
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    The Ural Cossack Host was a cossack host formed from the Ural Cossacks – those Eurasian cossacks settled by the Ural River. Their alternative name, Yaik...
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    Cossack Host (Russian: Амурское казачье войско) was a Cossack host created in the Amur region and Primorye in the 1850s on the basis of the Cossacks relocated...
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