THE APPEARANCE OF COSSACKS
The issue of the Cossacks' appearance has been studied not very scrupulously, though it deserves a more profound approach. It is known that the Cossack centre was located in the Dnipro region, namely, in the part situated to the south of Kyiv. In the fourteenth — fifteenth centuries these lands belonged to Kyiv princedom, and later they were governed by Kyiv province of Rzeczpospolita.
Starting from the tenth century the lands of southern Ukraine lived in the continuous expectation of a hostile attack, as M. S. Hrushevskyi reports in his work "A Study on Ukrainian People's History." They survived permanently fighting against nomads. Therefore, for a long period of time people living on the territory of Ukraine had to unite farming and armed fighting.
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