Because of the need of both the Reds and the anti-Bolshevik forces to deny any separate Cossack ethnicity, the traditional post- imperial historiography dates the emergence of Cossacks to the 14th-15th centuries. The Academician Ivan Zabelin mentioned that peoples of the prairies and of the woods had always needed "a live frontier", and even ancient Borisphenites ( Dniepr Scythians) and Tanaites could be the predecessors of Cossacks, not only the Khazars, who assimilated/included Severians, Goths, Scythians and other ancient inhabitants, as insisted by Cossack folklore, by the Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk, and by numerous Cossack historians. Modern scholars believe that Cossacks have both Slavic and Turkic origins. According to one theory, Cossacks have Slavic origins, while another theory states that the Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk of 1710 attests to Khazar origins. Several theories speculate about the origins of the Cossacks.
( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article.
This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points.
0 kommentar(er)
