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Zaporizhian Sich
The
Zaporozhian Sich
(; ; ,
Zaporoz'ka Sich
) was a semi-autonomous
Cossacks
' polity in the 16th–18th centuries, centred in the region around today's
Kakhovka Reservoir
spanning across the lower
Dnieper
river. In different periods, the area was under the sovereignty of the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
, the
Ottoman Empire
, the
Tsardom of Russia
, and the
Russian Empire
. In 1775, shortly after Russia annexed the territories ceded to it by the
Ottoman Empire
under the
Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca
(1774), the Sich was disbanded and incorporated into the Russian province of
Novorossiya
.
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