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Don Cossacks
Flag of the Don Cossacks[1]
Total population
0.2–2 million
Regions with significant populations
Russia: Rostov and Volgograd Oblasts
1,500,000 in 1918; 140,000 in 2010[2]
Languages
Don Gutar (Southern Russian dialect), Don Balachka (Eastern Ukrainian dialect)
Religion
Eastern Orthodox Christians, Starovers
Related ethnic groups
Russians,[3] Ukrainians, Buzava
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Don Cossacks (Russian: Донские казаки, romanized: Donskiye kazaki, Ukrainian: Донські козаки, romanized: Donski kozaky) or Donians (Russian: донцы, romanized: dontsy, Ukrainian: донці, romanized: dontsi), are Cossacks who settled along the middle and lower Don. Historically, they lived within the former Don Cossack Host (Russian: Донское казачье войско, romanized: Donskoe kazache voysko, Ukrainian: Головне Донське військо, romanized: Holovne Dons'ke viis'ko), which was either an independent or an autonomous democratic republic in present-day Southern Russia and parts of the Donbas region of Ukraine, from the end of the 16th century until 1918. As of 1992, by presidential decree of the Russian Federation, Cossacks can be enrolled on a special register. A number of Cossack communities have been reconstituted to further Cossack cultural traditions, including those of the Don Cossack Host.
Don Cossacks have had a rich military tradition - they played an important part in the historical development of the Russian Empire and participated in most of its major wars.
romanized: dontsi), are Cossacks who settled along the middle and lower Don. Historically, they lived within the former DonCossack Host (Russian: Донское...
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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...
(1721-1917), the Cossacks constituted twelve separate hosts, settled along the frontiers: the DonCossack Host the Bug Cossacks the Kuban Cossack Host the Terek...
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...
Forces of South Russia on the territory of DonCossacks against another self-proclaimed Don Soviet Republic. The Don Republic existed during the Russian Civil...
Cossacks in these events, would not be understood without a Cossack prehistory, and so I began with the description of the life of the DonCossacks just...
Don Host Oblast was a province (oblast) of the Russian Empire which consisted of the territory of the DonCossacks, coinciding approximately with present-day...
of the Union of Cossacks of the Don Military Region took place, where the status of the historical and modern center of the DonCossacks was established...
Terek and Rowing Cossacks to the DonCossacks during the Azov Campaigns in 1695, the Ottoman Empire retaliated against the Terek Cossacks and in 1707 most...
Cossack cuisine is a cuisine of the Cossacks. Cossack cuisine conveys the peculiarities of life and culture of the Cossack people. Many Cossack troops...
during World War II. It was created on the Eastern Front mostly with DonCossacks already serving in the Wehrmacht, those who escaped from the advancing...
The Registered Cossacks of the Russian Federation, also referred to as neo-Cossacks, are a Cossack paramilitary formation that originally performed non-military...
On 16 May, Pyotr Krasnov was elected Ataman. The Don Republic ordered the mobilization of Cossacks for six years. By June, with Denisov as his second...
northwest Russia and had little connection to the DonCossacks or Zaporozhian Cossacks. Siberian Cossacks participated in military conflicts on behalf of...
to 300 Cossacks had been shot, and rumors of executions lists of hundreds of Cossacks from every village, completely upset the Upper DonCossacks. This...
overthrown and its leaders fled. The Don Cossacks' Don Republic took over the territory of the Don Soviet Republic. The Don Soviet Republic was proclaimed on...
within the Russian Empire. Between May and August, fifteen DonCossacks units mutinied. Cossacks of the second Sotnia carried out a large group of numbers...
Yaik Cossacks rebellion. The idea of impersonating the late Emperor Peter III occurred to Pugachev early on, even before he reached the Yaik Cossacks. It...
served as the ataman of the Don Republic. Approximately 25,000 to 40,000 people were executed by Krasnov's White Cossacks, which lasted until the Red...
War. It is the symbol of the DonCossacks, due to which the anthem is also referred to as the Anthem of the DonCossacks (Russian: Гимн донских казаков)...
Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of DonCossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization...
join the DonCossacks people. They eventually became called the Buzava Kalmyks. They resettled with the DonCossacks along the middle and lower Don River...
between the DonCossacks and the Tsardom of Russia. Kondraty Bulavin, a democratically elected Ataman of the DonCossacks, led the Cossack rebels. The...
The DonCossacks Choir Russia (Хор донских казаков России) is a Russian folk choir of returned exiles and native Russian cossacks, founded in 1992 and...
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