Zaporozhian

plural Zaporozhians · alternative Zaporogian

1. historicalOne of the Cossacks who lived downstream of the rapids of the Dnieper/Dnipro River, in present-day Ukraine.

   As the Zaporozhians began to clash with the newcomers a number of Serb settlements were wiped out and the colonization came to a halt.

   2016, Alexander Basilevsky, Early Ukraine, McFarland & Company, page 359

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   Instead, the Zaporozhians tended to concentrate on their own affairs, that is, those of a relatively small (they rarely numbered more than 10,000), isolated Cossack fraternity based in the vast, empty steppes between the Hetmanate in the north and the Crimean Khanate in the south.

   2009, Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History, 4th edition, University of Toronto Press, unnumbered page

   The Zaporozhians detained the captains sent by Mazepa, placed them in custody ("as bandits"), and did not allow them to set fire to dry grasses in the "Wild Fields" (as had been planned in preparation for the campaign).

   2020, Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire, McGill-Queen's University Press, page 111

   Synonyms: Zaporozhian Cossack, Ukrainian Cossack

comparative more Zaporozhian · superlative most Zaporozhian · alternative Zaporogian

1. Of or relating to the Zaporozhians or their culture, etc.

   Then, too, towards the middle of the eighteenth century both the Russian government and the Zaporozhian nobility began to use all means to attract settlers to the Southern Ukraine.

   1955, Annals, Volumes 14-20, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States, page 2

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   […]city-type centres and settlements in the Zaporozhian territory the Sich's role as the regional centre grew especially important and that fact unexpectedly gave to a free steppe region a highly centralized form of government.

   1978, Lev Okinshevych, Ukrainian Society and Government, 1648-1781, Ukrainian Free University, page 117

   The attitude of the Zaporozhian envoys in Moscow shows that for the Zaporozhian Cossacks, who played an extraordinarily important role in the opening stage of the uprising, Kyiv was a distant if not an alien center, clearly outside the scope of Zaporozhian influence.

   2001, Serhii Plokhy, The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine, Oxford University Press, page 271