Salalams all ~
For an interesting report with pictures etc please see
http://www.slavorum.com/forum/index.php?topic=266.0 This website opens itself to questions and answers on some difficult issues and is an excellent resource.
Quote."Towards the end of the 15th century, the Ukrainian Cossacks formed the Zaporozhian Sich centered around the fortified Dnipro islands. Initially a vassal of Poland-Lithuania, the increasing social and religious pressure from the Commonwealth caused them to proclaim an independent Cossack Hetmanate, initiating by a rebellion under Bohdan Khmelnytsky in the mid-17th century. Afterwards, the Treaty of Pereyaslav brought most of the Ukrainian Cossack state under Russian control for the next 300 years."Unquote.
Ibrahiim al Balooshi
