In addition, they created the Historical and Cultural Complex 'Zaporizhian Sich'. Khortytsia has the unique Museum of the History of Zaporozhian Cossacks. Here, the life of Ukrainian Cossacks is recreated to the smallest details. You can find a lot of awesome attractions to spend the whole weekend throughout its territory. The island is integrated into the infrastructure of the city of Zaporizhzhia. It is included in the list of Seven Wonders of Ukraine. Nowadays, Khortytsia Island, where the Zaporizhian Sich was established, is the largest island on the Dnipro River and is 12.5 kilometers long. Legend has it that they lived for a very long time and were extremely strong вЂ“ and only silver bullets could kill them. They were said to speak twelve languages, turn into wolves and other animals, catch bullets and kernels with their hands, walk on water and even breath under water. Supposedly, the Kharakternyks could neither be burned in fire nor be drowned in water. There, Kharakternyks taught warriors martial arts, rituals, and customs. Some historians maintain that after the adoption of Christianity in Kyivan Rus, pagan magicians were persecuted and moved to the wild steppe where the Zaporizhian Sich was established later. People believed that they originated from ancient pagan magicians who possessed secret knowledge and were even able to predict the future. Legends say that there were unusual people called 'Kharakternyks'among the Cossacks. Video of BBC News: 'The warrior Cossacks of Ukraine': Legends: Kharakternyks and supernatural forces for assistance This was not particularly humane treatment, but it helped to maintain excellent discipline. For theft or killing of one of his congeners, a Cossack could be buried alive with the dead one or beaten to death with batons. The laws of the Zaporizhian Sich were rather strict. However, the titles of the Cossack aristocracy did not have any weight in the eyes of foreign elites. They received foreign ambassadors, concluded international agreements, and so on. The Cossack army created its own, uniquely developed state-administrative structure, which fundamentally different from similar structures of neighboring states. As aproto-state nation, it fought for the right to exist, develop, and resist hostile encroachments. Historians consider Zaporozhian Cossacks to be the first purely Ukrainian society. Zaporozhian Cossacks: Order and Democracy It was the Cossacks who spread and popularized the term 'Ukraine', which had not been used in the pre-Cossack era, as the name of their territories. That year, as a result of the Zboriv agreements between the leaders of the Rzeczpospolita and Cossack hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, it was formed as part of the Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Bratslav regions (called 'voivodeships', areas administered by a voivode orgovernor) to the east of the Sluch River.

Ukrainian Cossacks gained their independence in 1649. It ended with the creation of Cossack autonomy.

The reaction of the Poles did not satisfy the Cossacks, so they raised a rebellion under the leadership of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky. There, Cossack troops, headed by Hetman Petro Sahaidachny, joined Polish-Lithuanian forces and they stopped the Turkish army at its borders.ДЄfter that, the Zaporozhian Cossacks began to impose increasingly big social requirements on the Commonwealth.

In 1621, Lithuanian-Polish troops battled the Ottoman Empire at Khotyn. Their raids and robberies intimidated Turkey, and their support of Poland in campaigns against the Muscovites shook the throne of Moscow.ДЄt the beginning of the 16th century, Christian believing European governors considered the Cossacks to be crucial allies in their war against the Ottoman Empire. The first references of the Cossacks appear at the end of the 15th century, and their fame spread throughout Europe over the next hundred years. Their ancestors came from Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, and Tatar territories, and migrated at great risk to the southern steppes to hunt, fish, gather honey, and make handicraft goods. Historical sources tell us that the Ukrainian Cossacks came from a variety of nationalities and social groups. Zaporizhian Sich (Fortress): the emergence of glory

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