. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 47 ^"^ V Cot, BAiPwa1<l\ 55 û5°IO L ofb BniTO-ws- Û Wells. 2 Miles. neighbours. Towards the close of the sixteenth century they established them- selves farther south, in the Dnieper islands below the confluence of the Samara, about the great falls, whence their Russian name of Zaporog {Za poroj'fsi), or "People beyond the ; Li this well-protected spot they soon became the terror of the Moslem marauders, and attracted multitudes of the peasantry, escaping from serfdom in Poland and Lithuania, and raising their numbers in the seventee
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 47 ^"^ V Cot, BAiPwa1<l\ 55 û5°IO L ofb BniTO-ws- Û Wells. 2 Miles. neighbours. Towards the close of the sixteenth century they established them- selves farther south, in the Dnieper islands below the confluence of the Samara, about the great falls, whence their Russian name of Zaporog {Za poroj'fsi), or "People beyond the ; Li this well-protected spot they soon became the terror of the Moslem marauders, and attracted multitudes of the peasantry, escaping from serfdom in Poland and Lithuania, and raising their numbers in the seventeenth century to " 120,000 armed warriors" (Beauiilan). They crossed the Black Sea to burn Sinope, in Asia Minor, and in 1624 one of their expeditions sacked the suburbs of Constantinople. Li the sixteenth century the central sitch, or stronghold, was in the island of Khortitza, amidst the Dnieper rapids.
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