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Encyclopedia > Don Cossack

Don Cossacks refers to cossacks that settled along the Don River, Russia it its lower and middle parts. This population was formed in the second half od the 16th century from runaway peasants. By the end of the century they were granted certain privileges in exchange to frontier military service as Don Cossack Voisko. Since 1786 the territory was officially called Don Voisko Lands, renamed into Don Voisko Province (Область Войска Донского) in 1870.


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Don Cossacks (Russian: Донские Казаки) were Cossacks who settled along the lower and middle Don River, Russia.
Since 1786 the territory was officially called Don Voisko Lands, and was renamed Don Voisko Province (Russian: Oblast’ Voyska Donskogo) in 1870 (presently shared by the Rostov, Volgograd, and Voronezh regions of the Russian Federation as well as Luhansk and region of Ukraine).
Interior of Don Cossacks house in stanitsa Karginskaya, Rostov oblast
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