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unusual facts about Zaporizhian Host



Bulawa

The bulava was part of the Ukrainian Cossack Kleinody that were awarded by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky to the Zaporizhian Host.

Nikopol, Ukraine

Later it was renamed into Slovianske and then Nikopol, meaning the city of Nika or Victory (1781) due to the conquest of the Zaporizhia.


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Cossack with musket

# Coat of Arms of Zaporizhian Host Municipal (1648-1670, Cossack Hetmanate) body and head is turned three quarters to the left, feet at shoulder width forward, right arm behind back, left - holds stock of rifle at 45° angle to body