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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Aug 25, 2010 12:46:00 GMT 3
LOL it's funny ;D
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Post by Subu'atai on Aug 26, 2010 14:52:46 GMT 3
I know eh? Heh hence the painting. Good portrayal too, they look as if they're all in a booze party drinking up writing a formal diplomatic letter at the same time. No surprise on the end result ;D
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Post by sarmat on Aug 26, 2010 21:51:23 GMT 3
Zaporozhian Cossacks were in a booze party all the time... in between long periods of fighting and pillaging all the moving objects in their vicinity and beyond...
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Post by Asparuh on Aug 27, 2010 1:09:28 GMT 3
Ok,Thanks,.And can i know what happened afterwards.Did the Cossacks were eventually conquered by the Ottomans or they existed as a separate nation for the next decades ? In which year exactly this letter was ? And were there Crimean Cossacks fighting on Ottoman side ? In one of the movies i saw for the Ottoman empire in Bulgaria i saw some soldiers in the same armour,clothes and hats as the Cossacks fighting on Turkish side.
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Post by sarmat on Aug 27, 2010 21:48:25 GMT 3
Nothing happened. Cossacks had more troubles with the Poles than with Ottomans. Ottomans never complitely conquered them. I talked about that in another thread about the Ottomans. Though there was a period when a part of the Cossacks voluntary accepted Ottoman sultan's suzereinity than they switched again, than switched back to the Ottomans again, and so on. Going back and forth between the three powers: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Muskovy and the Ottoman empire. In the end, however, Zaporozhian Cossacks were largely "pacified" by Peter the Great of Russia and later, mostly, resettled to Kuban river of Caucasus where they transformed into Kuban Cossacks and where their ancestors still live.
You also confused some stuff. The Cossacks depicted in the picture are Zaporozhian (Ukrainian) Cossacks, not "Crimean Cossacks." There was a Crimean Tatar Cossack host that existed very briefly, and those guys were actually Crimean Tatars but that subject is out of the discussion here anyway.
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Post by Asparuh on Aug 29, 2010 23:47:46 GMT 3
Ok,good ,thanks for the info.
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