Question

who were the Cossacks ?​

Answer 1

Cossacks were mainly East Slavs, especially Russian and Ukrainian people. In the 15th century, the term originally described semi-independent Tatar groups which lived on the Dniepr River, which flows through Ukraine, Russia and Belarus

Answer 2

The Cossacks were a group of predominantly East Slavic-speaking Orthodox Christian people, who became known as members of democratic, self-governing, semimilitary communities, originating in the Pontic steppe (north of the Black Sea).

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