Editing Cossacks (section)

===Black Sea, Azov and Danubian Sich Cossacks===
{{see also|Black Sea Cossack Host|Azov Cossack Host|Danube Cossack Host}}
[[File:Józef Brandt - Wesele kozackie.jpg|thumb|Cossack wedding, by [[Józef Brandt]]]]
With the destruction of the Zaporizhian Sich, a number of Ukrainian-speaking Eastern Orthodox Zaporozhian Cossacks fled to the territory under the control of the [[Ottoman Empire]]. Together with [[Nekrasov Cossacks|Cossacks of Greater Russian origin]], as well as the vast majority of [[Old Believers]] and other people from "Greater Russia" ([[Moscovia (region)|Muscovy]]), they settled in the area of the [[Danube]] river, and founded a new Sich. Many Ukrainian peasants and adventurers later joined the [[Danubian Sich]]. While [[Ukrainian folklore]] remembers the Danubian Sich, other new siches of Loyal Zaporozhians on the [[Bug River|Bug]] and Dniester rivers did not achieve such fame. Other Cossacks settled on the [[Tisza|Tisa]] river in the [[Austrian Empire]], also forming a new Sich.

During the Cossack sojourn under Turkish rule, a new host was founded that numbered around 12,000 people by the end of 1778. Cossack settlement on the Russian border was approved by the Ottoman Empire after the Cossacks officially vowed to serve the [[Abdul Hamid I|sultan]]. Yet internal conflict, and the political maneuvering of the Russian Empire led to splits among the Cossacks. Some of the runaway Cossacks returned to Russia, where the Russian army used them to form new military bodies that also incorporated Greeks, Albanians and Crimean Tatars. After the [[Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)|Russo-Turkish war of 1787–1792]], most of these Cossacks were absorbed into the [[Black Sea Cossack Host]] together with Loyal Zaporozhians. Most of the remaining Cossacks who had stayed in the Danube Delta returned to Russia in 1828. They settled in the area north of the [[Sea of Azov|Azov Sea]], becoming known as the [[Azov Cossack Host|Azov Cossacks]]. The majority of Zaporizhian Cossacks who had remained loyal to Russia despite the destruction of Sich became known as [[Black Sea Cossack Host|Black Sea Cossacks]]. Both Azov and Black Sea Cossacks were resettled to colonize the [[Kuban steppe]], a crucial foothold for Russian expansion in the [[Caucasus]]. In 1860, more Cossacks were resettled to the [[North Caucasus]], and merged into the [[Kuban Cossacks|Kuban Cossack Host]].