A Cossack host ( uk, козацьке військо, translit=kozatske viisko; russian: каза́чье во́йско, ''kazachye voysko''), sometimes translated as Cossack army, was an administrative subdivision of

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s in the

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. Earlier the term ''viisko'' ( host) referred to Cossack organizations in their historical territories, most notable being the

Zaporozhian Host Zaporozhian Host (or Zaporizhian Sich) is a term for a military force inhabiting or originating from Zaporizhzhia, the territory beyond the rapids of the Dnieper River in what is Central Ukraine today, from the 15th to the 18th centuries. These in ...

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Russian Empire

Each Cossack host consisted of a certain territory with Cossack settlements that had to provide military regiments for service in the

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and for border patrol. Usually the hosts were named after the regions of their location. The ''

stanitsa A stanitsa ( rus, станица, p=stɐˈnʲitsə; uk, станиця, stanytsya) is a village inside a Cossack host ( uk, військо, viys’ko; russian: казачье войско, kazach’ye voysko, sometimes translated as "Cossack Ar ...

'', or village, formed the primary unit of this organization. In the Russian Empire (1721-1917), the Cossacks constituted eleven separate hosts, settled along the frontiers: * the Don Cossack Host * the Kuban Cossack Host * the Terek Cossack Host * the

Astrakhan Cossack Host Astrakhan Cossack Host (Russian: ''Астраханское казачье войско'') was a Cossack host of Imperial Russia drawn from the Cossacks of the Lower Volga region, who had been patrolling the banks of the Volga River from the tim ...

* the Ural Cossack Host * the

Orenburg Cossack Host The Orenburg Cossack Host (russian: Оренбургское казачье войско) was a part of the Cossack population in pre-revolutionary Russia, located in the Orenburg province (today's Orenburg Oblast, part of the Chelyabinsk Obl ...

* Siberian Cossacks * the Semiryechye Cossack Host * the Transbaikal Cossack Host * the Amur Cossack Host * the

Ussuri Cossack Host Ussuri Cossack Host (russian: Уссури́йское каза́чье во́йско) was a Cossack Host in Imperial Russia, located in Primorye south of Khabarovsk along the Ussuri River, the Sungari River, and around the Khanka Lake. ...

There was also a small number of the Cossacks in

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and Irkutsk, who would form the

Yenisey Cossack Host The Yenisey (russian: Енисе́й, ''Yeniséy''; mn, Горлог мөрөн, ''Gorlog mörön''; Buryat: Горлог мүрэн, ''Gorlog müren''; Tuvan: Улуг-Хем, ''Uluğ-Hem''; Khakas: Ким суғ, ''Kim suğ''; Ket: Ӄук ...

and the Irkutsk Cossack

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of the

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in 1917. Cossack hosts on Russian soil were disbanded in 1920, in the course of the

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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

* Amur Cossack Host (1854–) *

* Azov Cossack Host (1832–1862) * Baikal Cossack Host (1655-1920) * (1798-1865) * Black Sea Cossack Host (1787–1864) * Buh Cossack Host (1769–1817) * Caucasus Line Cossack Host (1832–1860) *

Danube Cossack Host The Danube Cossack Host ( ua, Дунайсько козацьке військо) was a Ukraine, Ukrainian Cossack Host formed in 1828 prior to the Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829), on the order of Nicholas I of Russia, Emperor Nicholas I from des ...

(1828–1868), an Imperial Russian Cossack Host formed from descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks * Don Cossack Host (1570-) * Greben Cossacks Host (1711-) * Kuban Cossack Host (1860–1920) *

(1755–1920) * Semiryechye Cossack Host (1867–1920) *

Siberian Cossack Host Siberian Cossacks were Cossacks who settled in the Siberian region of Russia from the end of the 16th century, following Yermak Timofeyevich's conquest of Siberia. In early periods, practically the whole Russian population in Siberia, especially t ...

(1582-1918) * Terek Cossack Host (1577–) * Transbaikal Cossack Host (1851–1920) * Ural Cossack Host *

(1889–1922) *

Volga Cossack Host The Povolzyhe Cossacks or Volga Cossacks (russian: Волжские казаки) were free Cossack communities in Russia which were recorded in sources from the 16th century on. They inhabited the areas along the Volga River. The Volga Cossack ...

(1734–1777) *

(–1775) — the

who lived in

Zaporizhia Zaporizhzhia ( uk, Запоріжжя) or Zaporozhye (russian: Запорожье) is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is the administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zaporizhzhia has a populatio ...

, in Central

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during the 16th — 18th centuries.

References

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List of hosts

See also

References