Mediterranean Chronicle
Volume 8, 2018, Pages 183-204

Splintered communities: Post-Zaporozhian Cossacks as refugees, mercenaries and irregulars 1775-1829 (Article)

Posun’Ko A.*
  • a Central European University, Hungary

Abstract

The article focuses on the Russian imperial policies towards the Cossack communities of the Pontic Steppe region at the turn of the eighteenthnineteenth centuries and the destiny of the former Zaporozhian (Lower Dnieper) Cossacks after the dissolution of their stronghold in 1775. The emphasis is on the shifting loyalties of frontier communities, challenges to imperial policies in borderland region and the required flexibility of the imperial rule. © 2018, Diavlos Publications. All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

Russian- Turkish wars Zaporozhian Cossacks Irregular units Eighteenth-nineteenth centuries Russian-Ottoman migrations Transdanubian Cossacks

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Link
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ISSN: 17919266
Original Language: English