For the ghost town in Western Australia, see Cossack, Western Australia. Cossack is the common name that has been independently shared by several population groups and military units throughout the history of Eastern Europe and some adjacent territories. The most prominent and numerous are the Ukrainian Cossacks (Козаки) and the Russian Cossacks (Казаки) of the Don, Terek and Ural regions. Russian Cossacks were considerably involved in the colonizing of Siberia. In the middle of the 17th century ...

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In early times, Cossack tribes were commanded by an ataman (later called hetman). He was elected by the tribe members at a Cossack rada, as were the other important tribe officials: the judge, the scribe, the lesser officials, and even the clergy. The ataman's symbol of power was a ceremonial mace, called bulava. The ataman had executive powers and at time of war he was the supreme commander in the field. Legislative power was given to the Tribal Assembly (Rada). The senior officers were called starshyna. In the absence of written laws, the Cossacks were governed by the ...

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Main article: History of the Cossacks Cossack - Origins. It is not clear when the Slavic people started settling in the lower reaches of the Don and the Dnieper. It is unlikely it could have happened before the 13th century, when the Mongol hordes broke the power of the Cumans and other Turkic tribes on that territory. Proto-Cossack groups most likely came into existence within the territories of today's Ukraine in the mid-13th century, when many Slavs fled south to escape the Tatar yoke. In ...

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• To dream of a Cossack, denotes humiliation of a personal character, brought about by dissipation and wanton extravagance.

Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

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The Hetmanate was a semiautonomous Cossack suzerainty in Left-bank Ukraine, owing fealty to the tsar of Muscovy. It was established as a result of the Treaty of Pereyaslav (Pereyaslavs'ka Rada) in 1654, and its boundaries set following the Treaty of Andrusovo (Andrusiv) of 1667, which gave Right-bank Ukraine to Poland and retained Left-bank Ukraine for Russia (at the time Muscovy). The Hetmanate's first hetman was Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Its capital was at Chyhyryn, and later at Baturyn and Hlukhiv. ...

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Yesaul, or Osaul (Turkic: yasaul="chief"; Russian: есау́л, /jesa'ul/), a post and a rank in the Cossack units. Originally it was introduced by Stefan Batory, King of Poland in 1576. Yesaul - Cossacks in Russia. There were different yesaul posts and ranks in Muscovy and Imperial Russia: Генеральный есаул (Generalny yesaul) - General Yesaul ...

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Ussuri Cossack Host (Russian: Уссури́йское каза́чье во́йско) was a Cossack Host in Imperial Russia, located in Primorye south of Khabarovsk along the Ussuri River, the Sungari River, and around the Khanka Lake. The Ussuri Cossack Host was created in 1889 on the basis of an unmounted half-battalion of the Amur Cossack Host and later reinforced with settlers from the Don Cossack Host, Kuban Cossack Host, and other Cossack hosts. The Ussuri Cossack Host headquarters was first located in Vladivostok and t ...

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Baikal Cossacks were cossacks of the Transbaikal Cossack Host (Russian: Забайкальское казачье войско), a Cossack host formed in 1851 in the areas beyond Lake Baikal (hence, Transbaikal). The Transbaikal Cossack Host partially consisted of Siberian Cossaks, Buryats, Evenkian (Tungus) military units and peasant population of some of the regions. The army included three cavalry regiments and three unmounted brigades. Its main purpose was to patrol the Sino-Russian border and perform everyday milita ...

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Astrakhan Cossack Host (Астраханское казачье войско in Russian) was a Cossack host of Imperial Russia drawn from the Cossacks of the Lower Volga region, who had been patrolling the banks of the Volga River from the time of Russia's annexation of Astrakhan Khanate in 1556. In 1737, the Russian government relocated a number of the Volga Cossacks to Astrakhan and formed a Cossack unit of 3 sotnyas, or 300 men, for escorting couriers and correspondence and for guard duty, which would be re-organized ...

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The Ural Cossack Host was a cossack host formed from the Ural Cossacks -- those cossacks settled by the Ural River. Their alternative name, Yaik Cossacks, comes from the old name of the river. Yaik Cossacks were the driving force in the rebellion led by Yemelyan Pugachev in 1773-1774. Other related archivesUral River, Yemelyan Pugachev, cossack host

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Cossacks 2 is the fourth game in the Cossacks series, released in Spring 2005 to mixed reviews. The problems with the game are not in graphics, but in the gameplay. Many Cossacks players wished that Cossacks II would be more like the older versions of the series. This series has always been noted for having an enormous number of units on screen at the same time, and that you could control them all at the same time, and this game is no exception. This time the limit of solders that can be used at the same time is 64,000, which is quite ...

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The term Cossack motorcycle can apply to any number of motorcycles, made in the former Soviet Union, a reference to the semi-nomadic mounted Cossacks who lived in Eastern Europe. Some are derived from the design of the 1938 BMW R71 sidecar motorcycle. Examples include the Ural or the Dnepr. Cossack was also the brand name applied to all Soviet motorcycles by SATRA in the 1970s and used by the Australian importers of the same period. Adolf Hitler licensed a lot of factory machinery to Stalin, including the BMW motorcycle

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Cossack (20°40′S 117°11′E) is a historic ghost town located 1480 km north of Perth in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Many of the buildings are listed by the National Trust. Other related archivesNational Trust, Perth, Pilbara, Western Australia, ghost town

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A Cossack host or Cossack voisko (Казачье войско, kazachye voysko, sometimes incorrectly translated as Cossack Army) was an administrative subdivision of Cossacks in Imperial Russia. It consisted of a certain territory with Cossack settlements that had to provide military regiments for service in the Russian Imperial Army and for border patrol. Usually the hosts were named after the regions of their dislocation. The stanitsa, or vi ...

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The Amur Cossack Host (Амурское казачье войско in Russian), a Cossack host created in the Amur region and Primorye in the 1850s on the basis of the Cossacks relocated from the Transbaikal region and freed miners of Nerchinsk region. Their resettlement began in 1854. The first Cossack stanitsa (Khabarovskaya) was created in 1858. A decree on the creation of the Amur Cossack Host was issued in 1860. Initially, it subordinated to the military governor of the Amur Oblast and Primorye (from 1879 an ...

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The Zaporozhian Host or Zaporozhian Voisko (Ukrainian: Запорозьке Войсько, Zaporoz’ke Vois’ko, sometimes translated as Zaporozhian Cossack Army), also called Zaporizhian Sich after its fortified capital, was a political, social, and military organization of Ukrainian (Ruthenian) Cossacks, from the 16th to the 18th centuries. It was established in the central Ukrainian territory called Zaporizhzhia, below the rapids of the Dnieper river. Its appearance chall ...

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Zaporizhian Sich or Zaporozhian Sech (Ukrainian: Запорозька Січ,Zaporoz'ka Sich) original Slavonic name "Zaporizhska Sich'" was the center of the Cossacks of Zaporizhzhia. The term has also been metonymically used as an informal reference to the whole Zaporizhzhia or to Zaporozhian Host. Initially Zaporizhian Sich was a fortified military camp the foundation for which was laid out on the Isle of Khortytsia (Mala Khortytsia, Khortytsia Minor) in 1556 by D.I. ...

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Bohdan Zynovii Mykhailovych Khmel'nyts'kyi (Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький in Ukrainian, commonly transliterated as Khmelnytsky; known in Polish as Bohdan Zenobi Chmielnicki; in Russian as Bogdan Khmel'nitsky) (c. 1595 – August 6, 1657) was a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth noble of Polish or Ruthenian origin, leader of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate, hetman of Ukraine, noted for his revolt against Poland (1648 – 1654) and the Treaty of Pereyaslavl which even ...

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Wachtmeister was a German military rank of non-commissioned officers. It was also adopted into Russian Army vakhmistr (ва́хмистр) and was used as Sergeant-grade rank in cavalry (until 1826), then Special Corps of Gendarmes and Cossack cavalry and Cossack Leib Guard units. Other related archives1826, Cossack, Cossack cavalry, German, Leib Guard, Russian Army, Sergeant, Special Corps of Gendarmes, cavalry, military rank

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