History of the Cossacks
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The history of the Cossacks concerns the development of semi autonomous, militarised communities that emerged in the steppe regions north of the Black and Caspian seas from the late medieval period on
"Bohdan Khmelnytsky with Tugay Bey at Lviv", oil on canvas, 1885, National Museum in Warsaw. Khmelnytsky Uprising 1648–1654. Painted by Jan Matejko
Russian cossacks on the front. 1915
Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks Yorck
Kuban Cossacks
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Kuban Cossacks or Kubanians 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 to the western Nor
Kuban Cossacks in 1861.
A memorial to the first settlers in Taman
Cossack reconnaissance during the Caucasus wars, by Franz Roubaud
Late 19th century