Kosakenland

Kosakenland (also known as Kosakenland in Norditalien or Cossackia) was a semi-independent military government subordinate to the NaziOperational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral established on the basis of Kazachi Stan, a mobile encampment and a combat formation composed of Cossacks who collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. The political entity had dual leadership representing the Circassian population and the Cossack population which had been settled by the order of Odilo Globocnik in Carnia, Friuli. The entity lasted from July 1944 to May 1945, when the Cossacks and Caucasians that had settled within it retreated to Austria in order to surrender to the British forces.