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  Cossacks
Sich on Turkish territory (1775–1828); the Cossacks in the
River and was relocated in 1792 in the Kuban as the
Host was the only formation of Ukrainian Cossacks that still existed in 1917 and had partial and very limited autonomy.
www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/C/O/Cossacks.htm   (1914 words)

  
 History of the Cossacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cossacks on their part were mostly happy to plunder everybody more or less equally, although in the 16th century with Commonwealth dominance extending south the Zaporoijan Cossacks were mostly, if tentatively, regarded as subjects of the Commonwealth.
Cossacks attempts to get recognized as equal to szlachta were constantly rebuffed and plans for transforming the Two-Nations Commonwealth (Polish-Lithuanian) into Three Nations (with Cossacks/Ruthenian people) were limited to a small minority of forward-thinking men, although the Zaporozhian Host was formally recognized as a nation in 1649.
Cossack formations of the Red Army would come over to the Germans in a body; new formations would spring up, apparently from nowhere, in traditional uniform and armed with swords, pistols, daggers, and rifles that had remained buried for years.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/history_of_cossacks   (2204 words)

  
 Kuban biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Quartered in the Kuban region, the Kuban Cossack Host was used by the czar to protect Russia's southern borders.
The Kuban Cossack Host consisted of two principal parts: the so-called "line Cossacks," mostly descendants of the Don Cossacks resettled to the Kuban area in the late XVIII cent.
Kuban Cossacks have taken an active part in the Transnistrian and Abkhaz conflicts and wars in former Yugoslavia.
kuban.biography.ms   (535 words)

  
 Cossack Host - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Cossack Host   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Cossack Host (Cossack Voisko, Казачье Войско (kazachye Voysko), sometimes incorrectly translated as Cossack Army) was an administrative subdivision of cossacks in Imperial Russia.
Cossack voiskos were disbanded in 1920 at the end of the Russian Civil War.
In the Russian Empire the Cossacks constituted 11 separate hosts, settled along the frontiers: the Don Cossack Host, Kuban Cossack Host, Terek Cossack Host, Astrakhan Cossack Host, Ural Cossack Host, Orenburg Cossack Host, Siberian Cossack Host, Semiryechye Cossack Host, Baikal Cossack Host, Amur Cossack Host, and Ussuri Cossack Host.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Cossack-Host.html   (241 words)

  
 Andrei Shkuro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shkuro graduated from Nikolayev Cavalry School in 1907 and later served in the Kuban Cossack Host.
In the spring of 1918, Shkuro organized a counterrevolutionary Cossack unit in the area of Batalpashinsk and in May-June raided Stavropol, Yessentuki and Kislovodsk.
Later, he became a commander of the Kuban Cossack brigade and division in the Denikin army.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrei_Shkuro   (413 words)

  
 Kuban Cossacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Russian Kuban Cossacks (Кубанские козаки, Kubanskie Kozaki) were cossacks that settled in the region around the Kuban River protected the southern borders of the Russian Empire.
The Kuban Cossack Host (Kuban Cossack Voisko, Кубанское казачье войско) was formed in 1860 from Black Sea Cossack Host and part of Caucasus Line Cossack Host (Кавказское линейное казачье войско).
In 1920, shortly after the October Revolution, the Kuban Cossack Host ceased to exist.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kuban_Cossacks   (106 words)

  
 Foreign Military Studies Office Publications - The Cossack Brotherhood Reborn: A Political/military Force in a Realm of ...
Cossack military colonies were moved to the very edges of the Empire and loyalty to the throne was assured through a system of watchful army officers and governors empowered to use any means to prevent further Cossack uprisings.
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)

  
 Ussuri Cossacks - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ussuri Cossacks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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.
Its nakazny ataman (who was also the military governor of the region) subordinated to the Governor General of the Amur region, who, in turn, was the nakazny ataman of the Amur and the Ussuri Cossack Hosts.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Ussuri-Cossacks.html   (318 words)

  
 The author of the project of Cossacks 15-21 cent.
Cossacks of Southern Ukraine in the first half of XIX century: the Azov Cossack Host.
The Azov Cossack Host in 1828-1866 // Cossacks of Southern Ukraine in late XVIII - XIX cent.
Azov Cossacks - the last Ukrainian reinforcement of the Kuban Cossack Host (on the archives materials) // The results of 2002 folklore and ethnographic research of the Northern Caucasus ethnic cultures.
www.cossackdom.com /avtore.html   (834 words)

  
 Cossacks in the 17th and 18th century /   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Peter burnt the Zaporozhe Sich; many cossacks fled; a new Cossack host was formed in the KUBAN region, another one at the YAIK (Ural) River.
The cossacks, because of the structure of their society, always remained a state of their own, nonwithstanding the Russian protectorate.
In 1773/1774 the Zaporozhe Host joined the PUGACHEV REBELLION; after it was defeated, Catherine the Great dissolved the Zaporozhe Host and had the area settled by farmers called in from everywhere (Serbia, Montenegro, Valachia, Germany etc.).
www.ukrstore.wol.bz /base/view/document/1119381050   (344 words)

  
 Kuban - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Kuban
The Kuban rises on the slopes of Mt Elbrus in Georgia and follows a westward course through Russia, flowing into the Sea of Azov via a wide, marshy delta.
The principal port on the river is Krasnodar.
The Kuban Steppe, the region through which the river flows, was extensively populated by Cossacks from the late 18th century onwards.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Kuban   (150 words)

  
 Frontier Army   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Cossack forces organized in 1832 by the Russian government to serve in the central and eastern part of the Caucasian frontier along the upper and middle
The army consisted of nine regiments formed of various Cossack and non-Cossack units.
Army soldiers within the new Kuban Host proved to be a Russophile element, hostile to Ukrainian political aspirations.
www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/F/R/FrontierArmy.htm   (84 words)

  
 THE RUSSIAN ARMY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The cross in class I is in the form of an iron cross with the coat of arms of the Kuban Cossack Host and the inscription "For the Liberation of the Kuban 1918" ["Za osvobozhdenie Kubani 1918"] on the face side; on the reverse – the serial number and the class.
The cross in class I is worn on a combined ribbon – St.-George (three fl and two orange stripes) and Kuban national (narrow dark blue – for the native people; double wide raspberry stripe – for the Kuban cossacks; and a narrow green stripe – for the mountains).
Appears as a medal of bright bronze, established in two classes, on the obverse – the coat of arms of the Kuban Cossack Host, on the reverse – the inscription "For the Liberation of the Kuban" and the class.
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 Encyclopedia: Russian Civil War
The initial groups that stood against the Communists were mainly counter-revolutionary generals and local Cossack armies that had declared their loyalty to the Provisional Government.
However, the Cossacks were unwilling to fight, and when the Soviet counter-offensive began in January under Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko the Cossacks quickly deserted Kaledin, who committed suicide.
The Volunteer Army was evacuated in February and escaped to the Kuban, where they joined with the Kuban Cossacks to mount an abortive assault on Ekaterinodar.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Russian-Civil-War   (5755 words)

  
 Azov Cossack Host   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Cossacks, who settled in the Turkish lands of the
The main task of the host was to protect the coast of the
Over six thousand Cossacks were demoted into peasants.
www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/A/Z/AzovCossackHost.htm   (93 words)

  
 Resource Information Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Cossacks were usually considered to be loyal to the Tsar and were used as a special military or police force for the suppression of internal unrest.
The Cossack national identity was formed during this period, and is still present today as Cossacks rally to "transform Krasnodar Krai back into the Kuban’ region they view as historically and rightfully theirs".
In fact, in 1992, one hundred Cossacks, backed by two armored personnel carriers, seized the town hall of Kurganinsk in Krasnodar to protest the refusal of the local government to expel all ethnic Armenians from the region.
uscis.gov /graphics/services/asylum/ric/documentation/RUS99002.htm   (925 words)

  
 Science Fresh : Article 'The Host'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
TV_star_trek_tng_the_host.jpg The Host VHS cover "The Host" is the 97th episode in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Host can mean: In general English, the term host can refer to a person, organisation, animal, cell, computer or similar that receives guests or intruders In television or radio, the host of a show is the person who presents it - for example Jay Leno is the current host of The Tonight Show.
See host club (Japan) In informatics, host serves as a synonym of server Host, an album released by the heavy metal/goth metal band Paradise Lost in 1999 A host may also consist of a large group, such as an army or a large number of people under a single cause or banner.
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 Russian Touring, Russian Travel, Russian Women
The total Cossack population in 1893 was 2,648,049 (1,331,470 women), and they owned nearly 146,500,000 acres of land, of which 105,000,000 acres were arable and 9,400,000 under forests.
In time of war the ten Cossack voiskos are bound to supply 890 mounted sotnias or squadrons (of 125 men each), 108 infantry sotnias or companies (same number), and 236 guns, representing 4267 officers and 177,100 men, with 170,695 horses.
Several Cossack regions were recognized by the Tsars; these were abolished by the Bolsheviks and the Cossack populations dispersed.
www.cossackconnection.com /cossack.htm   (834 words)

  
 Webpage Host in TutorGig Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Host can mean In general English language English, the term host can refer to a person, organisation, animal, cell biology cell, host computer computer or similar that receives guest s or intruder..
Host desecration is an anti semitic myth similar to the blood libel myth.
The Ural Cossack Host was a cossack host formed from the Ural Cossacks those cossacks settled by the Ural River.
www.tutorgig.com /es/Webpage+Host   (1040 words)

  
 Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia.
A few Cossack villages might be seen here and there, with some appearance of cultivation; but at the military posts and post-houses the accommodation and fare were of the humblest, or, more truly, the meanest, description.
Cossacks are described to be the only Cossacks who will fight the Circassians on equal terms, or of whom the Circassians have the least apprehension.
He is enthusiastic in favour of all Cossacks, Don and Tchernomorski; still I must avow that the specimens of the Don to be seen in Tehran, attached to the Russian mission, are far from exciting an impression in their favour.
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In 1928, the Sunzha Cossack District is shared among the Chechen and Ingush ARs, while the Chechen AR received the mainly Russian Autonomous City of Grozny, that became the administrative capital of the Chechen AR.
The Chechnya Cossacks (known as "Terek Cossack Host"), lived from the late 18th century on the banks of the Terek-river, considered a part of present Chechnya territory and as their historical lands, disputed also by Chechen.
Cossacks, present on the side of the Russian military during the armed actions came generally from other parts of the Terek Cossack Host or from other regions of the Northern Caucasus.
www.strategicsinternational.com /3engchechenia.htm   (16327 words)

  
 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Racist Alliance Takes Over Southern Russia Province
These 300,000 Cossack troops are now being employed officially to enforce "law and order" in Krasnodar Region, setting up road blocks for identity checks, invading buildings and homes, conducting sweeps at markets and transportation centers, and inflicting violence and intimidation aimed at cleansing the Region of non-ethnic Russians.
Since their re-emergence in 1990, Cossacks in the Kuban region have consistently called for "the drawing up of lists for the deportation of breeds like the Armenians and Jews" from what Cossacks consider their traditional homeland.
RNU and Cossack formations share a "racially pure Slav" philosophy for membership as well as a program of ethnic cleansing of Caucasians, Turks, and Central Asians from Russia by deporting them to their historic territories in the Former Soviet Union.
www.ucsj.com /stories/rus.kras.120497.shtml   (1139 words)

  
 Zaporoze
Zaporozhian Cossacks took active part in anti-Polish campaigns and rebellions that took places in modern day Ukraine, even though they were not actually part of Ukraine at that time.
At the end of the 18th century the Zaporozhian Host was disbanded by Catherine II on very unfriendly terms.
The Cossacks were cavalrymen originally chartered by Poland to establish autonomous military communities on the Turkish border.
www.kresy.co.uk /zaporoze.html   (1197 words)

  
 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Jews Blamed for Vandalism of Cossack Headquarters, Some Fear Reprisals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The leader of the Jewish community in the Krasnodar Kray city of Armavir is warning that Jews may be caught up in ethnic tensions between the city’s Armenian and Cossack population, according to a July 25, 2003 report by the Rujen news agency.
Acting with the approval of the regional authorities, Cossacks in the Krasnodar region have targeted some ethnic minority groups, including Armenians, in joint raids with police, ostensibly aimed at checking for illegal migrants.
In the recent past, some leaders of the Kuban Cossack Host have engaged in antisemitic rhetoric, and Cossack organizations regularly denounce migrants, at times in explicitly racist terms.
www.fsumonitor.com /stories/072803Russ3.shtml   (259 words)

  
 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: New Statistics on Krasnodar Cossacks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
According to a recent article in Kubanskie Novosti, the official newspaper of the Krasnodar regional administration, 15,700 Kuban Cossacks are registered as soldiers in the region, and 283 Cossack paramilitary "druzhiny" with over 5,000 members operate in Krasnodar.
A January 31, 2001 broadcast by the Municipal Krasnodar TV and Radio Company revealed that over 100 members of the Kuban Cossack Host have been elected to public office.
Members of the Kuban Cossack Host have been implicated in numerous attacks on ethnic and religious minorities in the region, and its leaders regularly make antisemitic and racist public statements.
www.fsumonitor.com /stories/021801Russia.shtml   (137 words)

  
 ANALYSIS: Russia's largest national minority: Ukrainians in the Russian Federation (12/17/95)
Take the case of the daughter of a Ukrainian cultural activist in the Kuban who was living in Vilnius and in 1992 was in Moscow preparing her papers to emigrate to Argentina.
His daughter, should she ever have made the trip to Argentina, will have followed a trail already well-trodden by descendants of the Kuban Cossack Host.
The bandura, as one proud descendant of Kuban Cossacks, a citizen of Russia, proclaimed a few years ago, was once played more widely in the Kuban than in Ukraine.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1995/519505.shtml   (990 words)

  
 THE EARLY COSSACKS
The Cossack Congress of 1917 presided by Col. Alex Dootov
One of the famous leaders of Kuban Cossacks
man from the left in the standing row is a Ural Cossack;
conflicts.rem33.com /images/Russia/cossack_cvr_weiss.htm   (90 words)

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