According to folklore, some moved to Malta, because Kosh members considered themselves the kind of Maltese chivalry.
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The Sich population had an international component, and apart from Ukrainians included Moldavians, Tatars, Poles, Lithuanians, Jews, Russians and many other ethnicities.
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Some researchers say that the constant threat from the Crimean Tatars was the impetus for the emergence of cossackdom.
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The Zaporizhian Sich emerged as a natural method of defense by the Ukrainian people against the frequent and devastating raids of Crimean Tatars, who captured hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, Belorussians and Poles.
Zaporizhian Sich | Sylvia – Eine Klasse für sich | Danubian Sich | Sich Riflemen | Kobzarska Sich |
The story depicts the events following the destruction of the island fortress of Zaporizhian Sich, the historic stronghold of the Ukrainian Cossacks on the Dnieper River.
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The story is based on a historical event: when the Zaporizhian Sich was overwhelmed by the Russian army, the Zaporizhian Cossacks and their families headed across the Danube River to the apparently safe haven of the Ottoman Empire (this area is now part of Romania) and established the Danube Sich (see Zaporozhian Host: Russian rule).