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Administrative and military centre of the Zaporizhian Cossacks

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::summary Administrative and military centre of the Zaporizhian Cossacks ::

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A sich (), was an administrative and military centre of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. The word sich derives from the Ukrainian verb сікти uk, "to chop" – with the implication of clearing a forest for an encampment or of building a fortification with the trees that have been chopped down. |author= Dmytro Yavornytsky|authorlink= Dmytro Yavornytsky |translator= Ivan Svarnyk |editor= L. L. Kiriyenko |script-title=uk:Історія Запорізьких Козаків, у трьох томах |trans-title= History of the Zaporizhian Cossacks, in three volumes |location= Lviv |publisher= Видавництво "Світ" ["Svit" Publishing House] |year= 1892|language= Ukrainian |volume= 1|isbn= 978-5-11-000647-0

The Zaporozhian Sich was the fortified capital of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, located on the Dnieper, in the 16th–18th centuries in the area of what is now Ukraine. The Sich Rada was the highest organ of government in the Zaporozhian Host, or army of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. The Danubian Sich was the fortified settlement of those Zaporozhian Cossacks who later settled in the Danube Delta.

Other transcriptions

Jeremiah Curtin (1898) — Saitch
Samuel Binion (1898) - Sich
Beatrice Baskerville (1907) - Setch
Isabel Hepgood (1915) - Syech
Harold Lamb (1917) - Siech
William Cresson (1919) - Sitch

List of sichs

Zaporozhian sichs:

(1556–1558)
(1564–1593)
(1593–1638)
(1639–1652)
Chortomlyk Sich (1652–1709)
(1709–1711; 1730–1734)
(1711–1728)
Nova Sich (1734–1775)

Danubian sichs:

Katerlez Sich
Seimen Sich
Dunavets Sich (1814–1828)

References

(1989). "Ukraine. A History". CUP Archive.
"Козак Хлит: український переклад".

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