>Around the end of the 16th century, increasing Cossack aggression strained relations between the Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire. Cossacks had begun raiding Ottoman territories in the second part of the 16th century. The Polish government could not control them, but was held responsible as the men were nominally its subjects. In retaliation, Tatars living under Ottoman rule launched raids into the Commonwealth, mostly in the southeast territories. Cossack pirates responded by raiding wealthy trading port-cities in the heart of the Ottoman Empire, as these were just two days away by boat from the mouth of the Dnieper river. In 1615 and 1625, Cossacks razed suburbs of Constantinople, forcing the Ottoman Sultan to flee his palace. In 1637, the Zaporozhian Cossacks, joined by the Don Cossacks, captured the strategic Ottoman fortress of Azov, which guarded the Don.

because the Cossacks were feared by all? What makes them different from other armies of their time?

>>14936046 (OP)

They're just slav(es) LARPing as their Kazakh Turkic masters

>>14936046 (OP)

>feared

They were literal convicts and outcasts and absorbed all that fled from the destitute livings of the east, Atleast at the start.

>Ukrainian

You mean little Russia?

>>14936046 (OP)

Chads

Why are Ukrainian so superior to Russians?

>>14936046 (OP)

they were bandits that emulated tatar tactics (poland did this as well)

also they were fighting for orthodoxy that was shat on by the uniate church

"""little russian""" as an identity only started after russia annexed the cossacks

for all intents and purposes they were rusyn from ukraina

>>14936046 (OP)

Don cossack independence when

No, he meant Małopolska (Little Poland), literally.

>they were bandits that emulated tatar tactics (poland did this as well)

They were literally part of Poland and the Polish border defence system called the Cossack Register.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_Cossacks

>rusyn

*Ruthenians, and Poles, but even Tatars etc.

This is before Ukrainian was an ethnicity, it was just a geographic denominator

>virgin russians love mongolian penis

>chad ukrainians love their slavic-scythian heritage

rich tears but tartar heads rest on Cossack pikes

The problem was with the Lower Dnieper Cossacks who operated essentially outside of the law.

Yeah, but they were still part of the registry. Often the main reason for cossack rebellions was the low or lowering of the Cossack Registry which they wanted constantly to expand, while "Warsaw" (the nobility) didn't want to raise more taxes to pay for even more registered cossacks base pay, or worse, the Polish king having a numerously strong and loyal army under him in form of the registry, as that the nobility was paranoidally afraid of, of a too strong royal power of the king which they constantly tried to counter and balance out.

>14938930

>ukraina

>geographic denominator

Basically borderland frontier

>>14936046 (OP)

They were likely highly effective warriors because they didn't have static, cucked command structures with hereditary ranks. They were among the first to use firearms for example - and we would say that in already "modern" way, that is _without_ line formations.

At some point in time, parts of Siberia were also called Ukraine due to it meanimg "the borderland"

Wagon circles are pretty damn good vs horse archers
