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2. Zaporozhian Sich - Wikipedia

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   The Zaporozhian Sich (Polish: Sicz Zaporoska, Ukrainian: Запорозька Січ, Zaporozka Sich; also Ukrainian: Вольностi Вiйська Запорозького Низового, Volnosti Viiska Zaporozkoho Nyzovoho; Free lands of the Zaporozhian Host the Lower) [1] was a semi-autonomous polity and proto-state [2] of Cossacks that existed between the 16th to 18th centuries ...

3. Right-Bank Uprising (1664–1665) - Wikipedia

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   Zaporozhian Sich Don Cossacks Tsardom of Russia Kalmyk Khanate: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Crimean Khanate Right-Bank Hetmanate Commanders and leaders; Local leaders 1664: Ivan Briukhovetsky Ivan Bohun Andrei Bogomaz Ivan Sirko Grigory Romodanovsky Grigory Kosagov Pyotr Skuratov: Stefan Czarniecki (DOW) John III Sobieski S. Machowski W ...

4. Liquidation of the Zaporozhian Sich - Wikipedia

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   Last Rada on Sich, Viktor Kovalyov , the mid 19th century. The liquidation of the Zaporozhian Host (Sich) in 1775 was the forcible destruction by Russian troops of the Cossack formation, the Nova (Pidpilnenska) Sich, and the final liquidation of the Zaporozhian Sich as a semi-autonomous Cossack polity. As a result, the Zaporozhian Lowland Host ...

5. Battle of Sich (1680) - Wikipedia

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   The Battle of Sich or Stand on the Sich took place between the Ottoman-Crimean army led by Pasha Kara-Muhammad and the Zaporozhian Cossacks led by Ivan Sirko, on the Lobodukha tract between islands, outside of Sich, in 1680.

6. Battle of Sich (1674) - Wikipedia

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   Turkish-Tatar army launched their campaign into the Sich once the rivers froze, at night to avoid getting detected. However, they were noticed by a Cossack named Shevchuk or Chefchika, who alerted his comrades, and made the presence of intruders in the Sich known to the other 150–350 Cossacks, which allowed them to react on time and equip their guns.

7. Zaporozhian Cossacks - Wikipedia

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   Some sources refer to the Zaporozhian Sich as a "cossack republic", [14] as the highest power in it belonged to the assembly of all its members, and because its leaders were elected. Officially the leader of Zaporozhian Host never carried the title of hetman , while all leaders of cossacks formations were unofficially referred to as one. [ 15 ]

8. Sich - Wikipedia

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   Reconstructed Zaporozhian Sich complex on the Khortytsia Island.. A sich (Ukrainian: січ), [1] was an administrative and military centre of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.The word sich derives from the Ukrainian verb сікти sikty, "to chop" – with the implication of clearing a forest for an encampment or of building a fortification with the trees that have been chopped down.

9. Siege of Azov (1637–1642) - Wikipedia

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   The Siege of Azov, in Russian historiography known as Azov sitting (Russian: Азовское сидение, romanized: Azovskoe sidenie) or Azov Crisis (Turkish: Azak krizi) was a series of conflicts over control of Azov fortress between Don-Zaporozhian Cossacks and Ottoman-Crimean-Nogai forces from 21 April 1637 to 30 April 1642.