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 | | Uhlans typically wore a double-breasted jacket (kurta) with a coloured panel (plastron) at the front, a coloured sash, and a square-topped Polish lancer cap (czapka) also spelt chapka, chapska and schapska. |
 | | Other plausible etymologies for 'Uhlan' include "Hulan" from Halani warrior, who overan the Pontic and the great steppe, or 'hulati' or 'galtai', connotated as free or disobedient, or "young man admired by women," but also as 'without money, pure or drinking'. |
 | | All twenty-six German Uhlan regiments were disbanded in 1918 – 1919. |
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