Zaporozhian Sich
The Zaporozhian Sich (, "Zaporoz'ka Sich"; ; , also , "Volnosti Viyska Zaporozkoho Nyzovoho"; Free lands of the Zaporizhian Host the Lower) was a semi-autonomous polity and proto-state of Cossacks in the 16th to 18th centuries, centred in the region around today's Kakhovka Reservoir and spanning the lower Dnieper river in Ukraine. In different periods the area came 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), Catherine the Great disbanded the Sich. She incorporated its territory into the Russian province of Novorossiya.

The term "Zaporozhian Sich" can also refer metonymically and informally to the whole military-administrative organisation of the Zaporozhian Cossack Host.
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proto-state
Concept
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Cossacks
Concept
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Kakhovka Reservoir
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Dnieper
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Ukraine
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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
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Ottoman Empire
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Tsardom of Russia
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Russian Empire
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Ottoman Empire
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Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca
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Catherine the Great
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Novorossiya
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metonymically
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Zaporozhian
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Cossack Host
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Zaporozhian Sich
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Zaporozhian Sich
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lake outflow
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lakes on river
country
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