Wild Fields
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The Wild Fields is a historical term used in the Polish–Lithuanian documents of the 16th to 18th centuries to refer to the Pontic steppe in the territory of present-day Eastern and Southern Ukraine an
Kamyana Mohyla in Ukraine
Delineatio Generalis Camporum Desertorum vulgo Ukraina (General sketch of devastated fields commonly known as Ukraina)
Partition of Cossack Hetmanate after the Truce of Andrusovo (1667)
General type of the Ukraine or Palatinate of Podolia, showing the lands of Kiev and Braslav with new delineations, 1681
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
Wild Fields
…Ukrainians lived there. By the 17th century, the east part of the Wild Fields had been settled by runaway peasants and serfs, who made up the core of the Cossackdom. During the Bohdan Khmelnytsky Uprising (from 1648 to 1657) the north part of this area was settled by Cossacks from the Dnieper basin and came to be…
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