Cossackia

Cossackia, officially the Zaporizhian Cossack Hetmanate, is a fictional transcontinental country located in the Caucasus, bordering Russia to the North and East, Kuban to the North-West, and Transcaucasia to the South. It is divided into 15 administrative regions, termed as "provintses". It has a population of 27.2 million people, including ethnic Cossacks, Russians, Ukrainians, and Kazakhs, as well as the indigenous Chechens, Azeris, Avars, and Kalmyks. Cossackia is a landlocked country, albeit it having a coast on the Caspian Sea, which is itself a landlocked lake. Its capital city is Rostovsky, while other major cities being Grozny and Stavropol.
Prehistoric activity on Cossack soil can be dated back to protohistorical times, since c. 10,000 BCE. Ancient cultures of the Ciscaucasia, the geographic region of Cossackia and Kuban are known as Klin-Yar community, with the most notable culture being the ancient Koban culture. Culturally diverse throughout late antiquity, in the early medieval period the region became inhabited by tribal Cossacks who, eventually gave "Cossackia" its name. Some Cossacks eventually liberalized, and migrated to modern day Ukraine, which formed the Zaporizhian Sich, in the 1600s. The Cossacks in Ciscaucasia subjugated other indigeneous local tribes in the region, forming the Cossack Host.
==Etymology==
Max Vasmer's etymological dictionary traces the name to the Old East Slavic word козакъ, kozak, a loanword from Cuman, in which cosac meant 'free man' but also 'conqueror'. The ethnonym Kazakh is from the same Turkic root.
==History==
It is unclear when people other than the Brodnici and Berladnici (which had a Romanian origin with large Slavic influences) began to settle in the lower reaches of major rivers such as the Don and the Dnieper after the demise of the Khazars. Their arrival was probably not before the 13th century, when the Mongols broke the power of the Cumans, who had assimilated the previous population on that territory. It is known that new settlers inherited a lifestyle that long pre-dated their presence, including that of the Turkic Cumans and the Circassian Kassaks. In contrast, Slavic settlements in southern Ukraine started to appear relatively early during Cuman rule, with the earliest, such as Oleshky, dating back to the 11th century.
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