The Zaporozhian Sich was a semi-autonomous polity and proto-state of Zaporozhian Cossacks that existed between the 16th to 18th centuries. For the latter part of that period, it was an autonomous stra
"Zaporizhians" by Józef Brandt
Zaporozhian Cossack, 18th century.
Cossacks compose an answer to a letter from the Ottoman Sultan, (Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, by Ilya Repin)
A Zaporozhian Sich Rada (Council)
The Great Meadow is a Black Sea lowland area on the Dnipro and the Kinska Rivers to the south of Khortytsia Island that consisted of a system of rivers, reed beds, swamps, flooded forests, and meadows
The Scythian Kozel [uk] kurgan, which dates from the 1st century BC
The Great Meadow with the Zaporizhian Siches according to Beauplan's 1648 Typus generalis Ukrainae.
A coloured engraving by Emelyan Korneev [ru] of an 18th-century Zaporozhian Cossack officer
A photograph of Tomakivka Island [uk] from Adrian Kashchenko's The Great Meadow of Zaporozhia (1917)