Black Sea Cossacks

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The Black Sea Cossacks were a Cossack host composed largely of former Zaporozhian Cossacks resettled by the Russian Empire along the Black Sea frontier in the late 18th century.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Cossack host
military community
allegiance Russian Empire NERFINISHED
borderGuardDuty Caucasus frontier
Ottoman Empire frontier
coatOfArms arms of the Black Sea Cossack Host NERFINISHED
continent Asia
Europe
country Russian Empire
culturalTradition Cossack songs and dances
demographics predominantly East Slavic
dissolved 1860
economicActivity agriculture
horse breeding
ethnicComposition Zaporozhian Cossacks NERFINISHED
formedFrom Zaporozhian Sich NERFINISHED
foundedBy Catherine II of Russia NERFINISHED
governedBy Cossack Rada NERFINISHED
grantedLandBy Russian crown
hasCapital Yekaterinodar NERFINISHED
hasSovereign Russian Emperor NERFINISHED
headquartersLocation Yekaterinodar Fortress NERFINISHED
historicalRegion Black Sea littoral NERFINISHED
Kuban NERFINISHED
inception 1787
language Cossack dialects
Russian
Ukrainian
legalStatus privileged military estate
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Black Sea region NERFINISHED
Kuban region NERFINISHED
mergedInto Kuban Cossack Host NERFINISHED
militaryBranch cavalry
infantry
notableConflict Caucasian War NERFINISHED
Napoleonic Wars NERFINISHED
Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) NERFINISHED
partOf Imperial Russian Army NERFINISHED
patron Catherine the Great NERFINISHED
predecessor Zaporozhian Host NERFINISHED
primaryRole colonization of Kuban
frontier defense
religion Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodoxy
socialStructure Cossack stanitsas
territory Kuban River basin
northeastern Black Sea coast
uniformFeature Cherkesska coat
papakha

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Alexandrovsk associatedWith Black Sea Cossacks
this entity surface form: Zaporizhian Cossacks
Ekaterinodar associatedWith Black Sea Cossacks
Kuban Rada ethnicGroupRepresented Black Sea Cossacks
Kuban Host formedFrom Black Sea Cossacks
Kuban Host formedFrom Black Sea Cossacks
this entity surface form: Caucasus Line Cossacks
Krug practicedIn Black Sea Cossacks
this entity surface form: Zaporozhian Cossack Host