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  1. Member of any of several, formerly
  2. horse-raising, Tatar groups of S and SW
  3. Russia, the Ukraine, and Poland, who took in
  4. escaped serfs, and lived in independent
  5. communal settlements (military brotherhoods)
  6. from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Later
  7. they held land in return for military service
  8. in the cavalry under Russian and Polish
  9. rulers. After 1917, the various Cossack
  10. communities were incorporated into the Soviet
  11. administrative and collective system.
  12.