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{{Short description|Territorial subdivision or military formation of Cossacks within the Russian Empire}}
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A '''Cossack host''',{{efn|{{blist|{{langx|uk|Козацьке військо|Kozaćke vijśko}}, {{IPA|uk|kɔˈzatsʲke ˈʋijsʲkɔ|pron}}|{{langx|ru|Казачье войско|Kazačje vojsko}}, {{IPA|ru|kɐˈzatɕʲje ˈvojskə|pron}}}}}} sometimes translated as '''Cossack army''', was an administrative subdivision of [[Cossack]]s in the [[Russian Empire]]. Earlier the term ''voysko'' ([[wikt:host#Etymology 2|host]], in a sense as a [[Doublet (linguistics)|doublet]] of ''guest'') referred to Cossack organizations in their historical territories, most notable being the [[Zaporozhian Host]] of [[Zaporozhian Cossacks]].

== Russian Empire ==
Each Cossack host consisted of a certain territory with Cossack settlements that had to provide military regiments for service in the [[Imperial Russian Army]] and for [[border guard| border patrol]] operations. Usually the hosts were named after the regions of their location. The ''[[stanitsa]]'', or village, formed the primary unit of this organization.

In the Russian Empire (1721-1917), the Cossacks constituted twelve separate hosts, settled along the frontiers: 

* the [[Don Cossack Host]]
* the [[Bug Cossacks]]
* the [[Kuban Cossack Host]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Kuban Cossack Host |url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CK%5CU%5CKubanCossackHost.htm |website=Internet Encyclopedia Of Ukraine |publisher=Internet Encyclopedia Of Ukraine |access-date=26 December 2023}}</ref>
* the [[Terek Cossack Host]]
* the [[Astrakhan Cossack Host]]
* the [[Ural Cossack Host]]
* the [[Orenburg Cossack Host]]
* the [[Siberian Cossacks]]
* the [[Semiryechye Cossack Host]]
* the [[Transbaikal Cossack Host]]
* the [[Amur Cossack Host]]
* the [[Ussuri Cossack Host]] 

There was also a small number of the Cossacks in [[Krasnoyarsk]] and [[Irkutsk]], who would form the [[Yenisey Cossack Host]] and the [[Irkutsk]] Cossack [[Regiment]] of the [[Ministry of the Interior]] in 1917.

Cossack hosts on Russian soil were disbanded in 1920, in the course of the [[Russian Civil War]] of 1917–1922 in a deliberate process of [[De-Cossackization]] to remove their autonomy.

==List of hosts==
* [[Amur Cossack Host]] (1860–1918)
* [[Astrakhan Cossack Host]] (1737–1920)
* [[Azov Cossack Host]] (1832–1862)
* [[Baikal Cossack Host]] (1851-1920)
* {{ill|Bashkir Host|ru|Башкиро-мещерякское войско}} (1798-1865)
* [[Black Sea Cossack Host]] (1787–1864)
* [[Buh Cossacks|Buh Cossack Host]] (1769–1817)
* [[Caucasus Line Cossack Host]] (1832–1860)
* [[Danube Cossack Host]] (1828–1868), an Imperial Russian Cossack Host formed from descendants of the [[Zaporozhian Cossacks]]
* [[Don Cossack Host]] (1570-1918, reconstituted in 1992)
* [[Greben Cossacks|Greben Cossacks Host]] (1711–1745{{efn|merged into [[Terek Cossack Host]]}}–1845-60{{efn|merged into, and re-emerged from, [[Caucasus Line Cossack Host]] (as part of [[Terek Cossack Host]])}}–1920, reconstituted in 1992)
* [[Kuban Cossack Host]] (1860–1920, reconstituted in 1992)
* [[Orenburg Cossack Host]] (1755–1920)
* [[Semiryechye Cossack Host]] (1867–1920)
* [[Siberian Cossack Host]] (1582-1918)
* [[Terek Cossack Host]] (1577–1792{{efn|merged into [[Caucasus Line Cossack Host]]}}–1860{{efn|re-emerged from Caucasus Line Cossack Host}}–1920, reconstituted in 1992)
* [[Transbaikal Cossack Host]] (1851–1920)
* [[Ural Cossack Host]] ({{c.}} 14th century-end–1920)
* [[Ussuri Cossack Host]] (1889–1922, re-established in 1990{{efn|as a non-administrative unit of any sort}})
* [[Volga Cossack Host]] (1734–1777)
* [[Zaporozhian Host]] (1572{{efn |as [[Registered Cossacks]] of [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth army]]}}/1649{{efn|as [[Zaporozhian Sich]]}}–1775), of the [[Zaporozhian Cossacks]] who lived in [[Zaporizhia (region)|Zaporizhia]], [[Dnieper Ukraine]], during the 16th — 18th centuries.

== See also ==
* [[Allotment system]]
* [[Colonia (Roman)]]
* [[Danubian Sich]]
* [[Military settlement]]
* [[Sloboda Ukraine]]

== References ==
=== Notes ===
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=== Citations ===
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