Cossack host
（重定向自Voisko）
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A Cossack host (Ukrainian:Козаче військо, kozache viysko; Russian:каза́чье во́йско, kazachye voysko), sometimes translated as Cossack army, was an administrative subdivision of Cossacks in the Russian Empire. The word host is an archaic word for army.