Free Cossacks

Ukrainian Cossacks that were organized as volunteer militia units in the spring of 1917 in the Ukrainian People's Republic
Organization military_unit Q2023764
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Free Cossacks

Summary

Free Cossacks is a military unit[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of military_unit entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Free Cossacks is in the country of Ukrainian People's Republic[3].
  • Free Cossacks's image is recorded as Members of the first Cossack congress. Chyhyryn October 1917.jpg[4].
  • Free Cossacks's instance of is recorded as military unit[5].
  • Free Cossacks's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 110153834732864450009[6].
  • Free Cossacks's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n2018056130[7].
  • Free Cossacks's Commons category is recorded as Free Cossacks[8].
  • +1917-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Free Cossacks[9].
  • Free Cossacks's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03mc0cz[10].
  • Free Cossacks's Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID is recorded as 34567[11].
  • Free Cossacks's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 156221[12].

Body

Founding

+1917-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Free Cossacks[9].

Brands and Namesakes

Things named for Free Cossacks include Vilnyi Zaporozhets[13], a human settlement[14], in Ukraine[15].

Why It Matters

Free Cossacks ranks in the top 5% of military_unit entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16]

Entities named for it include Vilnyi Zaporozhets[13], a human settlement[14], in Ukraine[15].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [13] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [14] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [15] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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