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Bookmark or Share- You've been wrong about Cossacks this whole timeOne of the oldest surviving Siberian Cossack fortresses. The very word Cossack (‘казак’) is Turkic and means a free man, a vagabond, a fortune seeker. Obviously, in Russia it appeared to denote...
- Cossack | Definition, History, & Facts | BritannicaCossack, (from Turkic kazak, “adventurer” or “free man”), member of a people dwelling in the northern hinterlands of the Black and Caspian seas. They had a tradition of independence and finally received privileges from the Russian government in return for military services.
- Cossacks summary | BritannicaCossacks, Peoples dwelling in the northern hinterlands of the Black and Caspian seas. The term (from the Turkic kazak, “free person”) originally referred to semi-independent Tatar groups, which formed in the Dnieper River region.
- Who were the Ukrainian Cossacks? - The Kyiv IndependentTrue to this moniker, Ukraine’s Cossacks — a semi-nomadic militaristic group originating somewhere in the 15th century — are renowned as sovereign warriors and pioneers of independence in Ukraine.
- The Cossacks, Ukraine’s Paradigmatic Warriors | OriginsUkraine’s Cossacks are first mentioned in sources of the late fifteenth century, and their rights as an independent community were abolished by the Russian Empire in the late eighteenth century. The enduring mythology of the Cossacks paints them as semi-nomadic, semi-militarized bandits.
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