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
Don Cossacks
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Don Cossacks or Donians, are Cossacks who settled along the middle and lower Don. Historically, they lived within the former Don Cossack Host, which was either an independent or an autonomous democrat
Cossacks
…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 lines, with large autonomous groups called hosts. Each host was…
Cossacks (right) attack the Ottoman army at the crossing of the Terek in the Battle of Sunzha River, during the Ottoman–Safavid War (1578–1590). Secaatname (1586)
Territory of the Don Cossacks - Herman Moll 1715
Don Cossack Host Land - Pâdyšev, Vasilij Pietrovič (1829)
Don Cossack parade uniform, 1867