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Don Cossack Voisko

Don Cossack Voisko (Don Cossack Host) is the name of a frontier military organisation of Don Cossacks (cossack host) in Imperial Russia since the end of the 16th century. It occupied the territory known as Don Voisko Province. In 1916 the Don Voisko enlisted over 1.5 million cossacks. It was disbanded in 1918, after the Russian Revolution.

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