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  Foreign Military Studies Office Publications - The Cossack Brotherhood Reborn: A Political/military Force in a Realm ...
The Zaporozhe Cossack host was disbanded, and the Yaik Cossacks were renamed the Ural Cossacks and resettled.
Cossack forces and their families were ordered to the far-flung frontiers of the expanding Russian Empire as military colonists, where they served as border guards and the first line of defense.
Cossacks in Chita (Eastern Siberia) gave a vote of no confidence to their ataman and his aides because of the ataman's use of public flogging, creation of his own intelligence service, creation of morality patrols, and maintaining files on all the members of the Cossack community.
fmso.leavenworth.army.mil /documents/cossack/cossack.htm   (6398 words)

  
 Ukraine - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
During the mid-17th century, a Cossack state, the Zaporozhian Host, was established by Ukrainians and others fleeing Polish serfdom.
Eastern Ukraine was eventually integrated into Russia as the Cossack Hetmanate, as a consequence of the controversial Treaty of Pereyaslav.
Ukraine is distinguished as one of the first nations to fight the Axis powers in Carpatho-Ukraine, and one that saw some of the greatest bloodshed during the war.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ukraine   (2474 words)

  
 Jew
Jewishness is determined by the mother (matrilineal descent); thus the immediate male descendants of a female Jewish apostate are still considered Jewish; all her female descendants, but only in a documented unbroken female line of descent, and their immediate male children are also considered Jewish.
Many Sephardim live in France (most of its Jews), Eastern Europe and Central Asia (small numbers), and the USA (a very small number), but most are in Israel (about 50% of Israelis), where they have created their own large ethnic political party called Shas guided by their rabbis such as Ovadia Yosef.
When granted political, economic and religious freedom, many Jews, probably the majority, choose to adopt the ways and religions of their host nations, abandoning many vestiges of their own ethnicity and religion, and then frequently choose to marry non-Jews when living outside of Israel.
www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Jew.html   (6050 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
During the mid seventeenth century, a Cossack state, the Zaporozhian Host, was established by Ukrainians and others fleeing Polish serfdom.
Eastern Ukraine was eventually integrated into Russia as the Cossack Hetmanate, as a consequence of the Treaty of Pereyaslav.
A new Ukrainian state, the Cossack Hetmanate, was established during the mid-17th century after an uprising against the Poles.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Ukraine   (4352 words)

  
 Jewish Genetics, Part 1: Jewish Populations (Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Mizrahim, Yemenite, Ethiopian) DNA
If the founding mothers of most Jewish communities were local, that could explain why Jews in each country tend to resemble their host community physically while the origins of their Jewish founding fathers may explain the aspects the communities have in common, Dr. Cohen said....
Admixture between Kurdish Jews and their former Muslim host population in Kurdistan appeared to be negligible.
Researchers from universities in Italy, Estonia, Portugal, France, the US and Russia contributed to the important study, which was published on-line by the prestigious American Journal of Human Genetics on Thursday and will appear in print in the March.
www.khazaria.com /genetics/abstracts-jews.html   (13586 words)

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