Zaporozhian Sich
Free lands of the Zaporozhian Host the Lower
The Zaporozhian Sich was a
semi-autonomous polity and proto-state of Cossacks that existed
between the 16th to 18th centuries, and existed as an independent
stratocratic state within the Cossack Hetmanate for over a hundred
years, centred on the region around today's Kakhovka Reservoir and
spanning the lower Dnieper river in Ukraine. In different periods the
area came under the sovereignty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth,
the Ottoman Empire, the Tsardom of Russia, and the Russian Empire. The
term Zaporozhian Sich can also refer metonymically and informally to
the whole military-administrative organisation of the Zaporozhian
Cossack host.
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by Olesia Razghonova