18/08/2020
🙌This is a very interesting topic, which deserves by no means not only one post, but much more!
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🙌First of all I would like to draw your attention to the fact that my essays are an extract from my university education and from some books in different languages. Sure I’d be happy to get additional info from your side, please don’t hesitate to write if you know more. So, here we go, now in general.
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🟢Have you ever wondered about Ukraine, that, in fact, it was located exactly at the junction of the lands of the Western Slavs, Turks and Circassians. Cultures were mixed so closely and now in the literary Ukrainian language you can find a lot of words, as well as surnames of Circassian origin. And, by the way, Cherkasy is a city in Ukraine, which got its name from the ethnonym “Cherkes” - "Circassian."
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🟢Please note the ending "-ko" often found in purely Ukrainian surnames - this is most likely a derivative of "kue" - "the son," and there is no another explanation for it being reasonable enough. For example, the most famous classic of the Ukrainian literature is Taras Shevchenko. Listen to his last name once again - this is Sheujen-kue! And a lot of people in Ukraine know that his ancestors were Zaporizhzhya Cossacks, but they never look deeper into the matter...
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🟢So, the Zaporizhzhya (Dnieper) Cossacks, who appeared in the XIII-XV centuries AD on the territory of present-day Ukraine, had multi-ethnic composition. There were Slavs, Turks, and representatives of different Caucasian peoples, including, and, for the most part, representatives of a Circassian tribe named Kasogs (that later dissolved in other nations), from whom they got their name. For many reasons I do agree with this hypothesis.
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🟢All of them were either already Orthodox Christians, or became them when they joined the community, the so-called Zaporizhzhya Sich. Interestingly, the newbies were asked there only two questions: "Do you believe in God (Christian)? Do you drink vodka? ".
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