Cossacks in a sentence

After the success of the Cossacks at the Battle of Khotyn in 1621, King Sigismund III directed the Cossacks to focus the attention on the Turkish bases around the Black Sea, promising rewards for conquest.

After this Cossacks used to convert Poles, especially Polish children, to Eastern Orthodoxy to turn them into Cossacks.

Among the ordinary Cossacks, hatred of the elite and central government boiled and by 1772, an open state of rebellion ensued for six months between the Iaik Cossacks and the central government.

Attempts by the szlachta to turn the Zaporozhian Cossacks into peasants eroded the Cossacks' formerly strong loyalty towards the Commonwealth.

But the Grebensky (Row) Cossacks (the part of Terek Cossacks) with deep Adyghe roots because of intermarriages, still speak an old northern Russian Viatka dialect.

Gen. Kaledin of the Don Cossacks and Gen. Semenov of the Siberian Cossacks were prominent among them.

Kuban Cossacks are Cossacks who live in the Kuban region of Russia.

Many Khazars, like Cossacks, as described in The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy, could be Slavic-Turkic bilinguals.

Modern-day Russian Cossack identity Ethnic or "born" (prirodnye) Cossacks are those who can trace, or claim to trace, their ancestry to people and families identified as Cossacks in the Tsarist era.

Moscovite chronicles use the exonym Cherkasy to refer both to enemy Cossacks (from Polish, Turk, and Tatar armies) and to Dnieper Cossacks, even when the latter were allied with Moscow.

Service with Cossacks collapsible Upon completion of his studies in 1617, Khmelnytsky entered into service with the Cossacks.

Some Ukrainian-speaking Eastern Orthodox Cossacks however ran away across the Danube (territory under the control of the Ottoman Empire) together with Cossacks of the Greater Russia origin to form a new host before rejoining the others in the Kuban.

Terek Cossacks main The Terek Cossack Host was a Cossack host created in 1577 from free Cossacks who resettled from the Volga to the Terek River.

The Lower Dnieper (Zaporozhian) Cossacks often referred to Higher Dnieper (Malorussian) Cossacks as Cherkasy as well.

The Red Guard fights against Cossacks at Tsarskoye Selo, with the Cossacks breaking rank and fleeing, leaving their artillery behind.

These Cossacks did not receive the government subsidies that the old Cossacks enjoyed and thus had to work harder and longer for food and money.

The Thorpes and Cossacks battled it out on Saturday at The Monument.

At the end of the war, as Russian Cossacks invaded Manchuria, my mother’s family evacuated to Japan.

Minority nationalities inside the Soviet Union, including the Cossacks, were among those cruelly victimized during this period, especially those who posed resistance.

The Cossacks’ offense is led by the versatile running back/wideout Jaxton Schiller, who became the program’s all-time leading scorer in the first round against Chamberlain.