@@BVargas78 your example represents the russian version of pronunciation- Сечь [sietch] and the ukrainian version is Січ [seetch]. Tho all we're left with is to wonder which is closer to the original word used by Cossacs themselves
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1. No, they are not. 2. In battle for khotyn against ottoman empire they were 50%(over 22 000 cossacks) of polish-lithunian commonwealth under the comand of UKRAINIAN hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachnyi. 3. How have they reinforced their ranks during various campains? Locals. Not only, but mostly. 4. They were ortodoz christians. Not catholics, not muslim or anything else? Bcs befor cossachina/hetmanat there have been Rus, which had been empire with strong capital Kiev, but later it became divided into many city states. It led for fall befor mighty mongols (it had havr few benefits like prosperity and all, but...). So this state with capital Kiev, had been christianised by Voladymyr/Vladimir Rurikovich. He did so to unite the states under one religion and to create marrige alliance with Byzantin. 4. Also, what was their language? Here is thing. We, ukrainians (not only we), understand old textes. From period of Rus, such as "Povist vremyanyh lit", written by Nestor Litolisyc, to "Duma" (poem about uniting), by Ivan Masepa ukrainian Hetman. I called just a few. In conclusion: - same culture with some mixture with iranic (which is ok, bcs ukraine was part of Hun empire, during civil war of Attila's sons on ukrainians land were located one of the capitals, i am not claiming Hun empire part of ukrainian nationality, just an interesng fact. Also there were scythians, samatians, kemerithians, rus and polovci, hetmanat, current state of Ukraine. Yes, cossacks were not only ukrainians, there were a lot of moskovites at that time (russians), tatars and a lot of another folks. As it was said. That was pretty much shelter for all kind of men. One irish guy once said, that Kryvonis (cossack) was irish. It can be so. I believe, i already have said it. - local reinforcment. - cossack starshyna had ruled over this land. - etc etc etc. It is only roof.
Yes, Ivan sirko is apparently a half Russian and an Orthodox Christian, he swore to uphold his pride always, he worked really hard and especially in a non illegal way and trained pretty hard and ate really different fRom others which led to his speciality and he made his way to the top, so here's to sirkow
Firstly - great video! Secondly, as a Pole I am really thankful for showing less known side of the cossack's history. It is most unfortunate that in Polish schools cossack's history is dominated mostly by the fact of their rebellions against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth rather then by showing the more accurate and objective version of the events. Saying this I need to apologize to my Ukrainian neighbors that the way we are thought this story is by general flattening of the source of the conflicts - which in a bigger shortcut occurred when cossacks disagreed with limits in number of so called "register cossacks" (cossacks which were being paid by the PLC and treated as a PLC's citizens) settled by the Sejm (or King I don't remember) and by the figure of Bohdan Chmielnicki and the death of the king Władysław Waza the 4th. Polish people also lack the knowledge of cossack origins (which were also not mentioned in this video) as the people who mostly fled from the 17th century feudal slavery which was present at the PLC Ukrainian's part of the Dominium, as well as the fact that Ruthenian people from this region were treated mostly as the citizens of 2nd category. It is definitely one of the most interesting and most overlooked part of Europe's history. Again great video!
Great comment! I am really happy to see poles in here! One correction though, Ukrainians (or Ruthenians). Were not treated as 2nd class citizens! They had their own szlachta as well! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthenian_nobility
As a Ukrainian, I can say that in common perception now cossacks are seen more as a symbol of fighting against Moscow even though they lost :( As for their relationships with Poland everybody is like, yeah, things happened, but now we are friends. Basically, cossacks are a symbol of any fight against any enemy :)
I guess they didn't want to talk about the most famous part with Bogdan Chmelnizki and Poland war, since this topic was brought up to many times. Also it's a shame they didn't talk about cossacks under Poland's crown, since those 2 groups had not very worm relations perfectly described in "Chorna Rada"
I'm not an Ukrainian myself but as someone really interested in its history, it was awesome to watch a video like this made by you! Cossacks were fascinating warriors indeed. Oh, an the animation was really good, I definitely loved it!
Repin is a Ukrainian-born artist who worked in Russia. His style was formed by Ukrainian culture which he often depicted in his art. Calling him Russian is like calling Picasso French.
Приємно коли Ted говорить про Україну, а ще не забули згадати, що мова на якій говорили козаки більш схожа на сучасну українську. Я не сильний у турецькій, але спікер сказав, що козак у перекладі з турецької це "Free man", пан Фрімен)
Damn, the artist and the narrator did a great job! The spirit of the steppe freedom of the brotherly Cossacks is transmitted perfectly. Thanks for the great video) Спасибо! Дякую!
Thanks a lot. I'm Ukrainian and I have to tell that we are all proud of our Kozaks, because they were fighting for freedom and it wasn't easy while being surrounded by empires. Well still it's not, but we will survive and keep our traditions and culture through centuries 🇺🇦
I'm so proud of being Ukraine right now I might cry. Thank you Ted for strengthening this feeling in me. Glory to Ukraine and its fearless warriors of the past and the present! 🇺🇦
@@bruiser995 The cossacks were east slavic.That means that they were more ukraine and russian.Dont forget that east slavs are very close related with each other
@@haleloop963cortex4 Do not forget that these Cossacks appeared there after the capture of Hetmanship by the Russian Empire. Cossacks began to move from the wild steppes to the Kuban
@@haleloop963cortex4 you're talking about Cassaks (Казаки). The Kuban ones, who accepted the deal from Russian Empire to settle near Kuban and serve loyally to the Russians. They have a different culture than the original ones
That's so cool! Eastern Europe's history is very underrated sometimes, very nice of TED-ED to show something about the ukrainian cossacks! To all my friends in Ukraine, much respect from Brazil!
the cossacks appearance is similar to the chitpawan brahmins who were given the post of peshavas ,in India they were a clan of brahmin warrior, peshwa bajirao was one of most popular warrior among the chitpawans.
@@sayandebhalder1618 according to Wikipedia the country with the largest amount of Turkic people is Turkey. "The most notable modern Turkic-speaking ethnic groups include Turkish people, Azerbaijanis, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Turkmens, Kyrgyz and Uyghur people."
Ви хочєте теж ковбаса? їжте! Words of love learned from my баба (grandma). How I miss her so. Greetings to other Ukrainians/Ukrainian emigrant descendants.
As a Ukrainian, it makes me proud and happy that Ted-Ed is making a video about parts of our history. It lets other people be aware about our history as well as countless other people’s. It is done in a way that is informational but also really interesting and keeps the viewer engaged. Thank you for this video.
I learned about them in my Slavic class! They were also often used by Poland as defenders of their boarders. These Cossaks wanted to have the same benefits as the Polish Gentry. The Gentrymen saw themselves as the defenders of Poland, when in fact they did not play that role effectively- that was the Cossaks. Poland never truly gave them gentry status. Then Ukrainians were often slaves/farm workers for Polish land owners. The Ukranians have a very rich history of a desire for freedom; how sad is it that the large forces around them (Russia and Poland) took away many of these beloved freedoms! Also, the concept of the "Cossaks Myth" only became recently popular due to the Ukranian national poet, Taras Shevchenko. He utilized stories of the Cossaks to instill a specific nationalistic point of view for the Ukranian people. You have to understand, the Ukranian people are divided by West and East. They are often seperated by religion (Catholics and Eastern Christian) and they are even seperated by language! Many closer to the Russian boarder don't speak Ukranian at all. So the unifying trait becomes the myth of the Ukranian Cossak warriors. (Btw I use the word "myth" to describe it in the terms my professor used. It does not mean it is fake).
Btw. This is todays myth made to create image of Ukraine as free people who fought against all around big nations. In fact non of this was true. Cossacks lived in different places. Cossack is not a nation. And word Ukranian and Ukrain in fact even did not exist most of it's history, and people of this lands called themselve Russians or Russich. And the private dairy of Taras Shevchenko written in russian. Also, Taras Shevchenko lived in XIX century and wrote myths or tales, stories for rich people in Moscow and St. Petersburg about exotic things. Sad but true.
Defenders of their boarders? Well mainly their military style of life was just for raiding other countries and get more and more spoils. All this cossack state was created by bandits, murders and robbers.
Видео - супер. Приятно видеть у вас на канале видео о козаках. Сторрителлинг и анимация очень живые и вовлекающие...вдохновляет меня на создание контента.)
My great grandfather was a Ukrainan Cossack he immigrated to the U.S. in 1911 we still have the uniform and weapons he brought with him along with his Bible a small cache of coins and some paper currency.
Although I woudl not go as far as to call my self a pure blooded Ukrainian half of my family is from Ukraine been living in Canada since I was born hereand even though I am proud of my heritage and identify as a Canadian I am glad to learn the history of the nation that my family came from
@@АртемСлободянюк-у5т казак не равно украинец. Его дед, который был казаком, также имел фамилию Репин, а не Репнюк или Репненко. Т.е. он был русским. Как и дед Репина по женской линии, имевший фамилию Бочаров.
@@sqqq6706 Художник - нащадок козацького роду на прізвисько Ріпа. Тому й Ріпа - Ріпин. Сам художник підписував себе як Рѣпинъ. А за нормами тодішнього українського правопису, друга літера читається як “і”, тобто РІпин.
Zaporozhian cossacks were not the only Cossacks. Thier were Russian Cossacks such as the Don cossacks and Ural Cossacks. And dnieper cossacks that were Ukrainian cossacks loyal to the Russians tsar. Cossacks were not particularly loyal to anyone, it was a job which includes a way of life.
@@terazan-ata No they were not? The Don and Zaporozhian cossacks both appeared during the 14th century. They were both two distinctive cossack groups. Plus thier is no difference of a Russian and a Ukrainian by blood they are both slavic. It is determined by the location of where they lived. The don Cossacks just lived in Russia.
there were many cossack hosts and they all were slightly different, they usually spoke slightly different language, had different views and generally looked different. Most famous cossack hosts were Zaporozhians (Ukraine) Don, Kuban and Terek (today Russia) though i wouldnt argue about if Cossacks were Russians or Ukrainans (cause these arguments show up everywhere Cossacks are mentioned) because they were their very own thing.
Squeezward there are 4 other hosts than that excluding the late Orenburg host and even then the Zaporozhian host was destroyed and deported to Russia where the Kuban Cossacks were formed
@@qwert1810 Cool, but when Cossaks began, were Ukrain and Russia even countries yet? Maybe the Cossak tribes in the lands that became Ukraine ect. Just, curious.
@@kaguth there's no such thing as cossack tribe. Cossacks is not a nation it's an estate (or condition). If you wondering their nationality, there were no such word as Ukrainian in that time, so everybody called themselve russians or rus (rusich).
@@DavayDalshe I've heard of the pre-Russian State (or area) call Kievan Rus', which I think included the land that would become Ukrain (not sure). But the original reply is saying that different Cossacks had different haircuts, which honestly I don't care so much about haircuts but Im curious if there were different factions of Cossacks, or different groups.
"And tragically they would eventually become the opressive hands of the Russian government they once opposed" a good historian should be like a good journalist, unbiased while reporting.
I might have an opinion biased because i live in russia and all countries want to look in their textbooks, but i belive they willingly joined russia, due to the polish repressing them.
Greetings from Ukraine! I was pleased to see you cover a part of the history of my native land on your channel! The animation skills are the best, as always.
When someone wants to learn more in a fun way about histoy, i highly recommend the podcast from "Daniele Bolelli"! Really a cool guy and the way he presents those old story is really great. Better than some movies, because the pictures are in youre head ^^
Btw cossacks had other "branches" that were mostly named after the rivers of the region where they lived. My ancestors were Don cossacks, but there were also cossacks of Terek, cossacks of Yaik and so on. Those that are depicted at the video are Zaporozhian ones
Never understood Cossacks fighting with Ottomans. There was no way of them to have a true rule over them in that Ukranian grassland. But to be honest, Tatar raids were probablya good motivation to fight against anything.
