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Cossacks - Wikipedia
Max Vasmer's etymological dictionary traces the name to the Tatar Turkic word kazak, kozak, in which cosac meant 'free man' but also 'conqueror'.[11] The ethnonym Kazakh is from the same Turkic root
historians suggest that the Cossack people were descended from East Slavs, Turks, Tatars, Circassians and others who settled or passed through the vast regions.[22] There are archeological indications, according to Turkologists, that Cossacks are descendants of the native Cumans of Ukraine, who had lived there long before the Mongol invasion.[23] Other theories expand upon that assertion to suggest that the first Cossacks were of Turkic origin.[24] For example, according to Serhii Plokhy, the first Cossacks were of Turkic rather than Slavic stock.[25] Christoph Baumer states that Cossack predecessors from the thirteenth century onward were mainly of Turkic stock