Meaning of sotnia | Babel Free

Definitions

A Russian or Ukrainian army unit of about a hundred soldiers, chiefly with reference to Cossacks.

historical

Equivalents

Examples

“On March 27 Mischtschenko marched from Koksan to Chonju, with 2 sotnias out of the 6 as advance guard.”

“In the wide plains that lay between the border forests of Russia and Austria, sotnias of Cossacks galloped about, uniformed winds in military order, mounted on the short, nippy horses of their native steppes […].”

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