Editing Cossacks (section)

====Under Russian rule====

[[File:Zaporozhian Cossacks Officer in 1720.JPG|thumb|An officer of the Zaporozhian Cossacks in 1720]]

The Zaporozhian Sich had its own authorities, its own [[Zaporizhian Sich|"Lower" Zaporozhian Host]], and its own land.
In 1775, the Lower Dnieper Zaporozhian Host was destroyed. Later, its high-ranking Cossack leaders were exiled to Siberia,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zM6XT8LP69sC&q=cossack+leaders+exiled+to+siberia+in+1775&pg=PA51 |title=The History of Ukraine |last1=Kubicek |first1=Paul |year=2008 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-34920-1 |language=en |access-date=2020-11-10 |archive-date=2022-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206071148/https://books.google.com/books?id=zM6XT8LP69sC&q=cossack+leaders+exiled+to+siberia+in+1775&pg=PA51 |url-status=live }}</ref> its last chief, [[Petro Kalnyshevsky]], becoming a prisoner of the [[Solovetsky Islands]]. Some Cossacks moved to the [[Danube Delta]] region, where they established [[Danubian Sich|a new sich]] under Ottoman rule.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lib.ru/HISTORY/FRUMENKOW/uzniki_monastyrya.txt_with-big-pictures.html |script-title=ru:Георгий Георгиевич Фруменков. Узники соловецкого монастыря |website=Lib.ru |access-date=2015-10-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160209200330/http://lib.ru/HISTORY/FRUMENKOW/uzniki_monastyrya.txt_with-big-pictures.html |archive-date=2016-02-09 |url-status=live }}</ref> To prevent further defection of Cossacks, the Russian government restored the special Cossack status of the majority of Zaporozhian Cossacks. This allowed them to unite in the Host of Loyal Zaporozhians, and later to reorganize into other hosts, of which the [[Black Sea Cossack Host|Black Sea Host]] was most important. Because of land scarcity resulting from the distribution of Zaporozhian Sich lands among landlords, they eventually moved on to the [[Krasnodar krai|Kuban region]].

The majority of Danubian Sich Cossacks moved first to the Azov region in 1828, and later joined other former Zaporozhian Cossacks in the Kuban region. Groups were generally identified by faith rather than language in that period,{{citation needed|date=November 2015}} and most descendants of Zaporozhian Cossacks in the Kuban region are bilingual, speaking both Russian and [[Balachka]], the local Kuban dialect of central [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]. Their folklore is largely Ukrainian.{{efn|This is also true of the Don Cossacks of the Lower Don, where the local dialect is related to Ukrainian. Many Ukrainian peasants joined the Terek Cossacks in the 1820s–30s, influencing local dialects. But among the Terek Cossacks, the Grebensky (Row) Cossacks, who had deep [[Adyghe people|Adyghe]] roots through intermarriage, still speak an old northern Russian Viatka dialect which likely has connections to the old dialects of the [[White Sea]] shores. The Middle Don dialects are related to northern Russian dialects, the Belarusian language, and the [[Volyn Oblast|Volyn]] dialects of Ukrainian. The Volyn dialects are close to Belarusian dialects, only the Upper Don dialects being from southern Russia.}} The predominant view of ethnologists and historians is that its origins lie in the common culture dating back to the Black Sea Cossacks.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ngkub.ru/news/old_265 |script-title=ru:Есть ли на Кубани мова? |trans-title=Is there "(Ukrainian) language" in Kuban? |language=ru |website=Ngkub.ru |date=22 October 2009 |access-date=2 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606012617/http://ngkub.ru/news/old_265 |archive-date=6 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Bogdan Zolotarevsky |url=http://www.ukrterra.com.ua/developments/history/modern/zolotarevsky-kub.htm |script-title=ru:Кубань – Украина: вопросы истории и политики |trans-title=Kuban – Ukraine: Historical and political questions |language=ru |publisher=Institute of Social Studies |year=2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522141817/http://www.ukrterra.com.ua/developments/history/modern/zolotarevsky-kub.htm |archive-date=22 May 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Tatiana Stepanovna Malykhina |url=http://pedsovet.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,99614/Itemid,118/ |script-title=ru:Кубанская балачка |trans-title=Kuban balachka (language) |language=ru |work=pedsovet.org |date=11 January 2013 |access-date=5 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130312001452/http://pedsovet.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,99614/Itemid,118/ |archive-date=12 March 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>