Cossack host
A Cossack host (Ukrainian: козацьке військо, romanized: kozatske viisko; Russian: каза́чье во́йско, kazachye voysko), sometimes translated as Cossack army, was an administrative subdivision of Cossacks in the Russian Empire.Earlier the term voysko (host) referred to Cossack organizations in their historical territories, most notable being the Zaporozhian Host of Ukrainian Cossacks.Each Cossack host consisted of a certain territory with Cossack settlements that had to provide military regiments for service in the Imperial Russian Army and for border patrol operations.The stanitsa, or village, formed the primary unit of this organization.Cossack hosts on Russian soil were disbanded in 1920, in the course of the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922 in a deliberate process of De-Cossackization to remove their autonomy.