Cossacks

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Phrases with the word

Examples

3 June: Cossacks break up a workers meeting, arresting over 20. Workers start sabotaging telephone wires and burn down a mill. Source: Internet

According to Russian historian Valerie A. Kivelson, witchcraft accusations were normally thrown at lower-class peasants, townspeople and Cossacks. Source: Internet

According to Russia's Population Census 2010, there are 67,573 people who identify as being ethnic Cossacks in Russia, citation while between 3.5 and 5 million people associate themselves with the Cossack identity in Europe and across the world. Source: Internet

According to this view, by 1261, Cossacks lived in the area between the rivers Dniester and Volga as described for the first time in Russian chronicles. Source: Internet

According to Michael Kort, "During 1919 and 1920, out of a population of approximately 3 million, the Bolshevik regime killed or deported an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 Cossacks", Kort, Michael (2001). Source: Internet

Adding to their supply problems, the Russians deployed large numbers of cavalry and Cossacks; every day each horse needed ten times the resources that a man required. Source: Internet