inogorodnie

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noun

Non-Cossack immigrants to Cossack-controlled land in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

OriginRussian иногоро́дние →
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Meanings

nouninogorodnie pl (plural only)
  1. historicalpluralplural onlyNon-Cossack immigrants to Cossack-controlled land in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

    To equalize newly arrived Inogorodnie with the Cossacks in land and in all other relations.

    2005, Dinah Shelton, Encyclopedia of genocide and crimes against humanity, →ISBN
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    There is no need to mention the inogorodnie, who were and remain loyal sons of Soviet Russia, and whose interests the Soviet Government will always staunchly defend.

    1953, Joseph Stalin, Works - Volume 4, page 415

    By 1910, slightly over half the population on Cossack land was non-Cossack, the inogorodnie.

    1987, Robert H McNeal, Tsar And Cossack 1855-1914, →ISBN, pages 10–11

Origin

  1. Russianиногоро́дние
  2. Englishinogorodnie

Borrowed from Russian иногоро́дние (inogoródnije) meaning "people from another village".

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