Zaporozhian Cossacks

State · 1662–1774 CE · at its largest around 1662 CE

Autonomous Cossack communities on the lower Dnieper in Ukraine, organised around the fortified Zaporozhian Sich, which Catherine the Great's Russia destroyed in 1775.

On its lands while it lasted

• Battle of Poltava (1709 CE): Peter the Great's Russian army crushed Charles XII's Swedish army at Poltava in Ukraine in 1709, ending Sweden's status as a great power.

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