A Mobile Border: Cossack Maneuvers in the Context of Colonization (the Late 16th to the Early 17th Century)

The Cossacks personified a “mobile border” in the southern Russian periphery (ukraina), one that maneuvered between the Muscovite state, the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Crimean Khanate, and the Nogai Horde. In the Field (Pole), where free and servant (sluzhilye) Cossacks came into contact, R...

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Main Author: A. V. Golovnev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Publishing House “Belgorod” 2015-04-01
Series:Tractus Aevorum
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Online Access:http://ta.bsu.edu.ru/images/stories/3/04.pdf