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Territorial subdivision or military formation of Cossacks within the Russian Empire
A
Cossack host
(
Ukrainian
:
козацьке в?йсько
,
romanized
:
kozatske viisko
;
Russian
:
каза?чье во?йско
,
kazachye voysko
), sometimes translated as
Cossack army
, was an administrative subdivision of
Cossacks
in the
Russian Empire
. Earlier the term
viisko
(
host
) referred to Cossack organizations in their historical territories, most notable being the
Zaporozhian Host
of
Ukrainian Cossacks
.
Russian Empire
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Each Cossack host consisted of a certain territory with Cossack settlements that had to provide military regiments for service in the
Imperial Russian Army
and for
border patrol
operations. Usually the hosts were named after the regions of their location. The
stanitsa
, or village, formed the primary unit of this organization.
In the Russian Empire (1721-1917), the Cossacks constituted twelve separate hosts, settled along the frontiers:
There was also a small number of the Cossacks in
Krasnoyarsk
and
Irkutsk
, who would form the
Yenisey Cossack Host
and the
Irkutsk
Cossack
Regiment
of the
Ministry of the Interior
in 1917.
Cossack hosts on Russian soil were disbanded in 1920, in the course of the
Russian Civil War
of 1917?1922 in a deliberate process of
De-Cossackization
to remove their identity. Cossacks who settled abroad continued to preserve the traditions of their hosts of origin (for example: the Triunited Don-Kuban-Terek Cossack Union (
Russian
:
Объединенный совет Дона, Кубани и Терека (ОСДКТ)
) founded in Istanbul in January 1921).
List of hosts
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See also
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References
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- ^
"Kuban Cossack Host"
.
Internet Encyclopedia Of Ukraine
. Internet Encyclopedia Of Ukraine
. Retrieved
26 December
2023
.