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  YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> cossack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
During the Russian Civil War they fought on both sides although the Don Cossack Host was one of the main military forces resisting the Bolsheviks.
The ataman had executive powers and at time of war he was the supreme commander in the field.
War brides brought from distant lands were also common in Cossack families.
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 Informat.io on Moldavian Magnate Wars
The Moldavian Magnate Wars refer to the period at the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century when the magnates of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth intervened in the affairs of Moldavia, clashing with the Habsburgs and the Ottoman Empire for domination of the territory.
However, the Peace of Žitava ended the Habsburg-Ottoman conflict known as the Long War, and forced the Ottomans to recognize the Habsburgs as equals, due to the former's inability to penetrate Royal Hungary.
In 1614 Sultan Ahmed I wrote Sigismund III that he was sending Ahmed Pasha to punish “those bandits”, that this was not meant as a gesture of hostility to the Commonwealth, and that he asked of him not to be a host to fugitives; Ahmed Pasha wrote hetman Żółkiewski asking for cooperation.
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 Moldavian Magnate Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Three powerful magnate families from the Commonwealth, Potockis, Koreckis and Wiśniowieckis, were related to the Moldavian Hospodar (Prince or Voivode) Ieremia Movilă (Jeremi Mohyła), and after his death in 1606, they supported his descendants.
However, Stefan Potocki was one of the pro-Habsburg magnates and Gabriel Batory, the anti-Habsburg ruler of Transylvania, removed Constantin Movilă in 1611.
However, Osman planned for a war against the Commonwealth, in order to compensate for the heavy losses sustained against Persia, where, in the Ottoman-Persian wars of 1603-1611 and 1617-1618/1619, the Ottoman Empire lost regions of The Caucasus as well as those in today's Azerbaijan and Georgia.
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 Moldavia
A deep crisis was to follow Alexandru’s long reign, with his successors battling each other in a succession of wars that divided the country until the murder of Bogdan II and the ascension of Petru Aron in 1451.
Such problems became endemic when the country, brought into the Great Turkish War, suffered the impact of the Stagnation of the Ottoman Empire; at one point, during the 1650s and 1660s, princes began relying on counterfeit coinage (usually copies of Swedish riksdalers, as was that issued by Eustratie Dabija).
The first Moldavian rule established under the Statute, that of Mihail Sturdza, was nonetheless ambivalent: eager to reduce abuse of office.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page : M/MO/MOL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
Moldavian ASSR and Romania Moldavian ASSR or Moldovan SSR (Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic; Romanian: Republica Autonomă Socialistă Sovietică Moldovenească) was an autonomous region of the Ukrainian SSR between 12 October 1924 and 2 August 1940, encompassing Transnistria (n..
Moldavian Democratic Republic was declared on December 16, 1917 by the National Council (Sfatul Ţării) of Bassarabia (Bessarabia) elected in September 1917 in the wake of the February Revolution in the Russian Empire.
The Moldavian Magnate Wars refer to the period at the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th cent..
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 Cossacks Encyclopedia Article @ SoldiersInc.com (Soldiers Inc)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
The ensuing chaos and string of retaliations often turned the entire south-eastern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth border into a low-intensity war zone and led to the escalation of the Commonwealth-Ottoman warfare, from the Moldavian Magnate Wars to the Battle of Cecora and Wars in 1633–1634.
However after the Russo-Turkish war of 1787–1792, most of them were incorporated into the Black Sea Cossack Host which moved to the Kuban steppes.
Following the war, Cossack units, along with cavalry in general, were rendered obsolete and released from the Soviet Army.
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 History of Hungary - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
In 1526, after some 150 years of war with Turks in the south, the Turks finally conquered parts of Hungary, and continued their expansion until 1556.
During the Napoleonic Wars and afterwards, the Hungarian Diet had not convened for decades.
Following the war of 1848-49, the whole country was in "passive resistance".
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 Chocim 1621
Following the failure of Commonwealth diplomatic mission to Istanbul, and violations of the Treaty of Busza by both sides (as Cossacks and Tatars continued their raids across the borders), relations between the Ottomans and the Commonwealth plummeted in early 1620.
However, many of the Moldavian boyars dispersed in order to defend their own estates against pillaging by undisciplined Commonwealth magnates' troops, and others decided to wait for an outcome and join the winning side.
fragment of an Armeno-Kipchak chronicle on the Polish-Turkish wars in 1620-1621.
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In 1342 and 1345, the Hungarians were victorious in a battle against Tatars; the conflict was resolved by the death of Jani Beg, in 1357).
Alexandru cel Bun, although brought to the throne in 1400 by the Hungarians (with assistance from Mircea I of Wallachia), shifted his allegiances towards Poland (notably engaging Moldavian forces on the Polish side in the Battle of Grunwald and the Siege of Marienburg), and placed his own choice of rulers in Wallachia.
Moldavian coat-of-arms, carved on the walls of Cetăţuia Monastery in Iaşi.
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Khotin) is a city in the Chernivtsi Oblast of western Ukraine, and is the administrative center of the Khotynsky Raion (district) within that oblast.
In earlier times, the town was part of the Bessarabia region, which between the 15th and the 20th centuries belonged successively to Moldavia, the Ottoman Empire, Russia, Romania, the Soviet Union, split between Ukrainian SSR and Moldavian SSR), and remained split between Ukraine and Moldova.
During the 17th and 18th century, its history was dominated by the war between the Christian powers of northern Europe and the expanding Ottoman Empire.
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 Stanis³aw Koniecpolski http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisla - forum.poland.com
Stanis³aw Koniecpolski, (1590/1594[1] – 11 March 1646) was a Polish nobleman (szlachta), magnate, official (starost and castellan), voivode of Sandomierz from 1625, and Field and later Grand Crown hetman (second highest military commander, after the king) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Before he reached the age of 20, he had fought in the Dymitriads and the Moldavian Magnate Wars, where he was taken captive by the forces of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Cecora in 1620.
In 1618, during the session of the Commonwealth parliament (Sejm) and ignoring the opposition of magnate Zbarski and his allies, king Zygmunt III Waza granted the bu³awa (ceremonial mace or baton) of Grand Crown Hetman to Stanis³aw ¯ó³kiewski and the baton of Field Crown Hetman to Koniecpolski.
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 Cossack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The ensuing chaos and string of retaliations often turned the entire south-eastern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth border into a low-intensity war zone and led to the escalation of the Commonwealth-Ottoman warfare, from the Moldavian Magnate Wars to the Battle of Cecora and Wars in 1633-1634.
Following the war the Cossacks, along with cavalry in general, were rendered obsolete and released from the Soviet Army.
War brides brought from distant lands were also not uncommon in Cossack families.
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Before he reached the age of 20, he had fought in the Dimitriads and the Moldavian Magnate Wars, where he was taken captive by the forces of Ottoman Empire at the
Lithuanian forces were dealt a serious defeat in December of 1626 near Koknese in Inflanty and retreated behind the Dvina river.
Koniecpolski supported the limited war against the Crimean Chanate, but opposed Wladyslaw's plan to wage the war on the entire Ottoman Empire, considering it an unrealistic folly.
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 Wallachia:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
Mavrocordatos himself was deposed by a boyar rebellion, and arrested by Habsburg troops during the Austro-Turkish War of 1716-18, as the Ottomans had to concede Oltenia to Charles VI of Austria (the Treaty of Passarowitz).
The death of prince Alexander Soutzos in 1821, coinciding with the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence, established a boyar regency which attempted to block the arrival of Scarlat Callimachi to his throne in Bucharest.
Internationally recognized only for the duration of his reign, the union was irreversible after the ascension of Carol I in 1866 (coinciding with the Austro-Prussian War, it came at a time when Austria, the main opponent of the decision, was not in a position to intervene).
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 moldavian - Qwika
Moldavian Principality From the mid-14th century, this region became the nucleus of the Moldavian Principality, with the city of Suceava as...
Polish sources, there are various terms like Moldavian war, Moldavian campaingn, or southern politics of the...
On 2 September 1990 the Moldavian Republic of Transnistria was proclaimed.
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Stanislaw Zolkiewski, was a Polish nobleman, magnate and a military commander.
Again he advised the King against war with Muscovy, at the time of the "False Demetrius", as both unjust and impolitic; but, as he says in his famous memoirs, "His Majesty's ears were closed to the hetman's arguments".
Zolkiewski was killed on 7 October 1620 during the Polish retreat after the battle of Cecora against the Turks in Moldavia near Prut river.
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 Informat.io on Cossack
As a result during Soviet times, Cossack culture was subject to intensive Bolshevik persecution and ethnic Cossack lands survived several famines.
However after the Russo-Turkish war of 1787–1791, most of them were incorporated into the Azov–Black Sea Host which moved to the Kuban steppes.
Cossack units played a role in many wars in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries (such as the Russo-Turkish Wars and the Russo-Persian Wars).
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 Janissary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ottoman empire used Janissaries in all its major campaigns, including the 1453 capture of Constantinople, the defeat of the Egyptian mamluks and wars against the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.
Sultan Selim II gave janissaries permission to marry in 1566, undermining the exclusivity of loyalty to the dynasty.
In the aftermath of the Moldavian Magnate Wars (1595–1621) with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Habsburgs, culminating in the battles of Cecora and Ottoman defeat at Khotyn (Polish-Lithuanian Army was represented by Ukrainian Cossacks under the command of Petro Konashevych Sahaidachny), Sultan Osman II died during the Janissary rebellion of 1622.
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 Janissary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
The Ottoman empire used janissaries in all its major campaigns, including the 1453 capture of Constantinople, the defeat of the Egyptian mameluks and wars in Austria.
In the aftermath of the Moldavian Magnate Wars (1595-1621) with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Habsburgs, culminating in the battles of Cecora and Ottoman defeat at Khotyn, Sultan Osman II died during the rebellion of janissaries in 1622.
Eventually Mahmud II had to get rid of the janissaries, perhaps because he had to pay the high salaries of 135,000 janissaries, Many of whom were not actually serving soldiers.
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In return for their (decreasing) loyalty and their fervour in war, Janissaries gained (increasing) privileges and benefits.
The Ottoman empire used Janissaries in all its major campaigns, including the 1453 capture of Constantinople, the defeat of the Egyptian mamluks and wars in Austria.
Eventually Mahmud II sought to get rid of the Janissaries, perhaps because he had to pay the high salaries of 135,000 janissaries, many of whom were not actually serving soldiers.
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 The Terrible Truth - The Human History of War
161 - 166 Parthian war of Lucius Verus
1532 - 1546 Ottoman-Habsburg War in the Mediterranean
1551 - 1581 Ottoman-Habsburg War in the Mediterranean
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 Moldova
At the end of the Crimean War, in 1856, by the Treaty of Paris, two districts of southern Bessarabia were returned to Moldavia, Russia lost access to the Danube river.
Establishment of the MSSR and World War II Formerly ruled by Romania as part of the principality of Moldavia, Eastern Moldova was occupied by the Soviet Union (with consent from Nazi Germany) in 1940 as a consequence of a secret protocol attached to the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact.
On 2 August 1940, the Soviet government created the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (Moldavian SSR), with its capital at Chisinau (Kishinëv, in Russian), by joining most of Eastern Moldavia (known as Bessarabia during its occupation by the Russian Empire) with a portion of the Moldavian ASSR (the rest was assigned to the Ukrainian SSR).
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 Hungary tours
World War II Hitler used promises of returning territories, economic pressure, and threats of military intervention to compel the Hungarians into supporting his policies, including those related to Jews, which encouraged Hungary's anti-Semites.
The right-wing radical L?zl??dossy succeeded and in April 1941, after the German attack, Horthy dispatched the military forces to occupy former Hungarian lands in Yugoslavia, and Hungary eventually annexed sections of Vojvodina, Croatia and Slovenia.
Hungary eventually entered the war at the end of June, after the questionable Soviet bombing of Kosice (Kassa).
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 The Ultimate Cossack Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
Cossacks almost yearly raided the Ottomans territories and vassals near the Black Sea, almost always causing the retaliatory Tatar raids (or vice versa).
The ensuing chaos and string of retaliations often turned the entire south-eastern Commonwealth border into a low-level warzone and led to the escalation of the Commonwealth-Ottoman warfare, from the Moldavian Magnate Wars to the Battle of Cecora and Wars in 1633-1634.
He was elected by the tribe members, as were the other important tribe officials: the judge, the scribe, the lesser officials, and even the clergy.
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