Terek Cossacks
The Terek Cossack Host was a Cossack host created in 1577 from free Cossacks who resettled from the Volga to the Terek River. The local aboriginal Terek Cossacks joined this Cossack host later. In 1792 it was included in the Caucasus Line Cossack Host and separated from it again in 1860, with the capital of Vladikavkaz. In 1916 the population of the Host was 255,000 within an area of 1.9 million desyatinas.
Flag of Terek Cossacks | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
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| Russia | 255,000 (1916) |
| Languages | |
| Russian, Ukrainian | |
| Religion | |
| Eastern Orthodox Christians, Starovers | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Russians, Ukrainians, Ossetians, Dagestanis, Chechens and Ingush people | |
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