Zaporozhian Sich
16th to 18th-century Cossack polity in modern southern Ukraine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Zaporozhian Sich (Polish: Sicz Zaporoska, Ukrainian: Запорозька Січ, Zaporozka Sich; also Ukrainian: Вольностi Вiйська Запорозького Низового, Volnosti Viiska Zaporozkoho Nyzovoho; Free lands of the Zaporozhian Host the Lower)[1] was a semi-autonomous polity and proto-state[2] of Cossacks that existed between the 16th to 18th centuries, including as an autonomous stratocratic state within the Cossack Hetmanate for over a hundred years,[3][4][5] centred around the region now home to the Kakhovka Reservoir and spanning the lower Dnieper river in Ukraine. In different periods the area came under the sovereignty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Ottoman Empire, the Tsardom of Russia, and the Russian Empire.
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Free lands of the Zaporozhian Host the Lower Вольностi Вiйська Запорозького Низового | |||||||||||
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1552–1775 | |||||||||||
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Status | Vassal state of Poland–Lithuania (1583–1657) | ||||||||||
Demonym(s) | Zaporozhian Cossacks | ||||||||||
Government | Cossack Republic | ||||||||||
Historical era | Early modern period | ||||||||||
• Established | 1552 | ||||||||||
1775 | |||||||||||
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Today part of | Ukraine |
In 1775, shortly after Russia annexed the territories ceded to it by the Ottoman Empire under the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (1774), Catherine the Great disbanded the Sich. She incorporated its territory into the Russian province of Novorossiya.
The term Zaporozhian Sich can also refer metonymically and informally to the whole military-administrative organisation of the Zaporozhian Cossack host.