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What is a Cossack?

What is a Cossack? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, formed in part of runaways from the neighbouring countries, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian tsarist Empire (where they constituted a legendary military caste), particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine.
  2. A member of a military unit (typically cavalry, originally recruited exclusively from the above)
  3. (obsolete) A Ukrainian.
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The Russians gradually colonized the north, establishing Cossack settlements in the lowlands.
Hundreds of wooden luggers once plied the northern coast from Cossack to Cairns.
The collection contains studies by government officials, scholars, and Cossack movement leaders.
Each Cossack force had its own ataman and there was an ataman of all Cossack forces who, from 1827, was the heir to the imperial throne.
In fact, the Cossack regards the Russian peasant as a foreign, outlandish, despicable creature.
The hopak was first danced by the Cossack of the Zaporhizian Sich in the sixteenth century and spread to the rest of Ukraine.

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