💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Cossack host"
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| Word | Definition |
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| registered cossacks | Registered Cossacks comprised special Cossack units of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth army in the 16th and 17th centuries. |
| terek cossacks | The Terek Cossack Host was a Cossack host created in 1577 from free Cossacks who resettled from the Volga to the Terek River. |
| regimentnoun | (military) A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units. |
| cossack hetmanate | The Cossack Hetmanate (see other names), officially the Zaporozhian Host, was a Ukrainian Cossack state. |
| cossacknoun | A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, formed in part of runaways from neighbouring countries, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian tsarist Empire and constituted a military caste, particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine. |
| kipchaks | The Kipchaks or Qipchaqs, also known as Kipchak Turks or Polovtsians, were Turkic nomads and then a confederation that existed in the Middle Ages inhabiting parts of the Eurasian Steppe. |
| sotnianoun | (now historical) A Russian or Ukrainian army unit of about a hundred soldiers, chiefly with reference to Cossacks. |
| cossacks | a predominantly East Slavic Eastern Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia. |
| chevalier guard regiment | a Russian heavy cavalry guard regiment, created in 1800 by the reformation of the Chevalier Guard corps, itself created in 1764 by Catherine the Great. |
| russian guards | Guards or Guards units (gvardeyskiye chasti) were elite military units of Imperial Russia prior to 1917–18. |
| kazakh khanate | The Kazakh Khanate (Kazakh: , , ), in eastern sources known as Ulus of the Kazakhs, Ulus of Jochi, Yurt of Urus, was a Kazakh state in Central Asia, successor of the Golden Horde existing from the 15th to the 19th century, centered on the eastern parts of the Desht-i Qipchaq. |
| kazannoun | a cauldron or cooking pot used in Central Asian cuisine |
| nogai horde | a confederation founded by the Nogais that occupied the Pontic–Caspian steppe from about 1500 until they were pushed west by the Kalmyks and south by the Russians in the 17th century. |
| kievan rusnoun | (historical) A medieval principality in Eastern Europe centred around Kyiv; at its maximum extent covering much of modern Ukraine, Belarus and western Russia and considered an early predecessor of each country. |
| streltsy | The streltsy were the units of Russian firearm infantry from the 16th century to the early 18th century and also a social stratum, from which personnel for streltsy troops were traditionally recruited. |
| uyezdnoun | (historical) An administrative subdivision of Muscovy, the Russian Empire, and the early Russian SFSR, in use from the 13th century. |
| bosnian-herzegovinian infantry | The Bosnian-Herzegovinian Infantry, commonly called the Bosniaken (German for Bosnians), were a branch of the Austro-Hungarian Army. |
| atamannoun | (historical) A title of Cossack and haidamak leaders of various kinds. The term was also used for the leader of a fisherman artel and of a band of robbers or thieves. |
| ruthenianoun | The territory between Central and Eastern Europe inhabited by Rusyns, on the slopes of the Carpathian Mountains in parts of Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia. |
| cumannoun | (historical) A member of a nomadic Turkic people of central Asia who ruled parts of Eurasia and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. |
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