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
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
Ruthenians
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Ruthenian and Ruthene are exonyms of Latin origin, formerly used in Eastern and Central Europe as common ethnonyms for East Slavs, particularly during the late medieval and early modern periods. The L
Zaporozhian Cossacks
…Zaporozhian Cossack Army or the Zaporozhian Host, were Cossacks who lived beyond (that is, downstream from) the Dnieper Rapids. They were predominantly Ruthenians, but also included other ethnic groups (most notably their kish otaman Ivan Sirko was of Moldavian origin). Scientific studies conducted on the Zaporozhian…
A boy with the pilgrimage flag with the Ruthenian lion during the Ruthenian pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1906
Ruthenians of Kholm (Chełm) in 1861.
Ruthenians of Podlachia in the second half of the 19th century.
Latin memorial plate from 1521, that mentions king Odoacer as Rex Rhutenorum (Petersfriedhof, Salzburg).