Cossacks, a military people of mixed origin, chiefly Tartar and Slav, who fought on horseback, in their own interest as well as that of Russia, defending its interests in particular for centuries past in many a struggle, and forming an important division of the Russian army.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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