Ukrainian Cossacks. A small encyclopaedia

Ukrainian Cossacks. A small encyclopaedia - Praca Zbiorowa

Cossacks (Ukrainian: козаки́, kozaky, Russian: казаки́, kazaki, Belarusian: казакi) are a group of predominantly East Slavic-speaking people who became known as members of democratic, self-governing, semi-military communities, predominantly located in Ukraine and Russia. They inhabited sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper, Don, Terek, and Ural river basins and played an important role in the historical and cultural development of both Russia and Ukraine. The origins of the first Cossacks are disputed, though the 1710 Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk claimed Khazar origin. The traditional post-imperial historiography dates the emergence of Cossacks to the 14th or 15th centuries, when two connected groups emerged, the Zaporozhian Sich of the Dnieper and the Don Cossack Host. ! Uwagi: Obwoluta nieco zarysowana i wytarta. Brzegi stron zakurzone i zarysowane, trochę zabrudzone i wytarte.