Cossack ostrog (fortress)

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The Cossack ostrog (fortress) was a wooden frontier stronghold built by Cossacks in Siberia as a military, administrative, and colonial outpost of the Russian state.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative center
colonial outpost
frontier fortress
military outpost
wooden fortification
alsoKnownAs Cossack ostrog NERFINISHED
ostrog
builtBy Cossack detachments
builtFor Russian Empire NERFINISHED
Tsardom of Russia NERFINISHED
developedDuring 16th century
17th century
Russian conquest of Siberia NERFINISHED
hasFunction administration
collection of tribute
colonial expansion
control of indigenous populations
military defense
trade regulation
hasPart administrative buildings
barracks
chapel or church
gates
storehouses
watchtowers
wooden palisade
inhabitedBy Cossack garrisons
Russian officials
settlers
languageOfTerm Russian
locatedIn Russian frontier regions
Siberia NERFINISHED
material wood
partOf Russian frontier fortification system NERFINISHED
predecessorOf Siberian towns
permanent Russian settlements in Siberia
relatedTo Cossack voisko NERFINISHED
Russian colonization of Siberia
Siberian Cossacks NERFINISHED
surroundedBy ditches
wooden walls
typicalShape rectangular plan
usedBy Cossacks NERFINISHED
Russian state NERFINISHED
usedFor gathering yasak (fur tribute)
securing trade routes
staging further expansion into Siberia

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Дьокуускай foundedAs Cossack ostrog (fortress)