Cossacks
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The Cossacks or Kozak are a predominantly East Slavic, Eastern Orthodox Christian militant people, originating from the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia. Cossacks played an
An American Cossack family in the 1950s
Cossacks marching in Red Square at the 2015 Victory Day Parade
Cossack bandurist, 1890
Ottoman Turks in battle against the Cossacks, 1592
Zaporozhian Cossacks
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The Zaporozhian Cossacks or Zaporizhian Cossacks, also known as the Zaporozhian Cossack Army or the Zaporozhian Host, were Cossacks who lived beyond the Dnieper Rapids. They were predominantly Rutheni
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…Commonwealth and Russian Empire endowed Cossacks with certain special privileges in return for the military duty to serve in the irregular troops: Zaporozhian Cossacks were mostly infantry soldiers, using war wagons, while Don Cossacks were primarily cavalry soldiers. The various Cossack groups organized along military…
Zaporozhian Cossack by Konstantin Makovsky, 1884
A Zaporozhian Sich Rada (Council)
Battle between Maksym Kryvonis and Jarema Wisniowiecki during the Khmelnytsky Uprising, by Nikolay Samokish
Zaporozhians in 1740