History of the Cossacks information

The history of the Cossacks spans several centuries. Several theories speculate about the origins of the Cossacks. According to one theory, Cossacks have...

more Cossacks were resettled in the North Caucasus, and merged into the Kuban Cossack Host. The native land of the Cossacks is defined by a line of Russian...

were Cossacks who lived beyond (that is, downstream from) the Dnieper Rapids. Along with Registered Cossacks and Sloboda Cossacks, Zaporozhian Cossacks played...

Reply of 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...

The repatriation of the Cossacks or betrayal of the Cossacks occurred when Cossacks, ethnic Russians and Ukrainians who were opposed to the Soviet Union...

romanized: dontsi), are Cossacks who settled along the middle and lower Don. Historically, they lived within the former Don Cossack Host (Russian: Донское...

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...

The Correspondence between the Ottoman sultan and the Cossacks, also variously known as the Correspondence between the Cossacks and the Ottoman/Turkish...

incorporated into the Orenburg Cossack Host (except for the Ural Cossacks). A decree of 1840 established the borders of the Host and its composition (10...

The Registered Cossacks of the Russian Federation, also referred to as neo-Cossacks, are a Cossack paramilitary formation that also performs non-military...

Hetman of Zaporizhian Cossacks as a title was not officially recognized internationally until the creation of the Cossack Hetmanate. With the creation of Registered...

to Kuban Cossacks. Cossacks Azov Cossack Host Black Sea Cossacks Caucasus Line Cossack Host Danubian Sich Don Cossacks Zaporozhian Cossacks Decossackization...

The Cossack cross (Ukrainian: Козацький хрест, romanized: Kozatskyi khrest) is a type of cross pattée used by Cossacks, the Zaporozhian Army and the Ukrainian...

of the Cossacks relocated from the Transbaikal region and freed miners of Nerchinsk region. Their resettlement began in 1854. The first Cossack stanitsa...

Sergeant Corporal Drummer, Trumpeter, Cossack Medical Officer, Accountant, Assistant Accountant, Clerk, Armourer Cossacks Austro-Hungarian military mission...

Registered Cossacks (Ukrainian: Реєстрові козаки, Rejestrovi kozaky, Polish: Kozacy rejestrowi) comprised special Cossack units of the Polish–Lithuanian...

The Union of Cossacks is a movement of Russian and Central Asian cossacks established at a conference in Moscow on 28 June 1990, which sought to unite...

Agreement, whereby the Cossacks would swear allegiance to the tsar while retaining a wide degree of autonomy. The event triggered a period of political turbulence...

cosacchi ("The Land of the Cossacks") – Cossack units in upper Italy Krimtürken (Crimean Tatars) Kirim ("Crimea") – Weekly paper for the Crimean Tatar volunteers...

During the uprising the Cossacks led a massacre of thousands of Poles and Jews during 1648–1649 as one of the most traumatic events in the history of the Jews...

The Cossack uprisings (also kozak rebellions, revolts) were a series of military conflicts between the Cossacks and the states claiming dominion over...

title of Cossack and haidamak leaders of various kinds. In the Russian Empire, the term was the official title of the supreme military commanders of the Cossack...

organisation of the Zaporozhian Cossack host. The name Zaporizhia refers to the military and political organization of the Cossacks and to the location of their...

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...

ataman of the Yaik Cossacks and the leader of the Pugachev's Rebellion, a major popular uprising in the Russian Empire during the reign of Catherine the Great...

was an administrative subdivision of Cossacks in the Russian Empire. Earlier the term viisko (host) referred to Cossack organizations in their historical...

The Red Cossacks (Ukrainian: Червоне козацтво, Russian: Червонное казачество) was a military formation of Bolsheviks and the Soviet government of Ukraine...

of Ukraine, began to be written down and widely used in official documents of the Cossack Hetmanate. After the Crimean Tatars betrayed the Cossacks for...