Don region

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The Don region is a historical area in southern Russia centered around the Don River, traditionally associated with the homeland of the Don Cossacks.

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Don region canonical 17

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical region
associatedWithRiver Don River NERFINISHED
borders Black Sea region
North Caucasus
Sea of Azov region
Volga region
climate continental
containsCity Azov
Novocherkassk
Rostov-on-Don
Taganrog
country Russia
hasPart lower Don River
surface form: lower Don River basin

middle Don River basin
historicalCenter Cherkassk
Novocherkassk
historicalEvent Cossack uprisings
Russian Civil War battles
historicalLanguage Cossack dialects of Russian
Russian
historicallyInhabitedBy Don Cossacks
Nogai
Slavs
surface form: Slavic peoples

Tatars
Turkic peoples
historicalRole Cossack military territory
frontier zone of the Russian Empire
knownFor Cossack culture
grain agriculture
horse breeding
river navigation
steppe landscapes
language Russian
locatedIn southern Russia
modernEquivalent Rostov Oblast NERFINISHED
parts of Krasnodar Krai
parts of Volgograd Oblast
parts of Voronezh Oblast
namedAfter Don River NERFINISHED
partOf Pontic–Caspian steppe
religion Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodoxy
strategicImportance access to Black Sea via Sea of Azov
control of Don River trade routes
terrain river floodplains
steppe
traditionalHomelandOf Don Cossacks
wasPartOf Don Host Oblast
Russian Empire
Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

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