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The Zaporozhian Cossacks, also known as the Zaporozhian Cossack Army or the Zaporozhian Host (Ukrainian: Військо Запорозьке, romanized: Viisko Zaporozke), [1] were Cossacks who lived beyond (that is, downstream from) the Dnieper Rapids. [2] Along with Registered Cossacks and Sloboda Cossacks, Zaporozhian Cossacks played an ...
[2] A council headed by Kosh Ataman Petro Kalnyshevskyi convened at the Sich, and fierce debates erupted in an attempt to find a way out of the hopeless situation in which the Zaporozhian Cossacks found themselves. The council decided not to shed Christian blood and voluntarily laid down its arms in front of the Muscovites.
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.
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.
The majority of Danubian Sich Cossacks moved first to the Azov region in 1828, and later joined other former Zaporozhian Cossacks in the Kuban region. Groups were generally identified by faith rather than language in that period, [ citation needed ] and most descendants of Zaporozhian Cossacks in the Kuban region are bilingual, speaking both ...
Draganenko states that Sirko would've remained in Sich, if Cossacks suffered heavy losses and he was severely wounded. [2] Regardless of outcome, this event is viewed as one of Sirko's least successful battles or least loud victories due to falling into a trap set up by Polish-Tatar forces.
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 ...
One of the leaders of the "Blacks", or poor peasants and non-registered Cossacks, Pavel Mikhnovych But nicknamed Pavliuk, gathered around himself a large band of armed Zaporozhian Cossacks and reached the fortress town of Korsuń, [2] the headquarters of the Registered Cossacks and the largest Polish royal outpost in the Borderlands.