Caucasus Line Cossack Host

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Caucasus Line Cossack Host" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Part of a series on
Cossacks
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
Cossack hosts
Amur Astrakhan Azov Baikal Black Sea Buh Caucasus Danube Don Free Greben Kuban Orenburg Red Semirechye Siberian Terek Ural Ussuri Volga Zaporozhian Irkutsk Cossacks [ru]
Other Cossack groups
Albazinan Bashkir Danube Jewish Nekrasov Persian Tatar Turkish
History
Registered Cossacks Uprisings Kosiński Nalyvaiko Khmelnytsky Hadiach Treaty Hetmanate Colonisation of Siberia Bulavin Rebellion Pugachev's Rebellion Communism De-Cossackization Cossacks in the SS
Notable Cossacks
Petro Doroshenko Bohdan Khmelnytsky Petro Sahaidachny Ivan Mazepa Yemelyan Pugachev Stepan Razin Ivan Sirko Andrei Shkuro Pavlo Skoropadskyi Yermak Timofeyevich Ivan Vyhovsky
Cossack terms
Ataman Hetman Kontusz Kurin Sotnia Oseledets Papakhi Plastun Yesaul Stanitsa Shashka Szabla
v t e

Caucasus Line Cossack Host (Кавказское линейное казачье войско) was a Cossack host created in 1832 to 1860 for the purpose of conquest of the Northern Caucasus.^[1] Together with the Black Sea Cossack Host, it defended the Caucasus Fortified Defense Line from the inlet of Terek River to the inlet of Kuban River while the lower reaches of the Kuban were occupied by the Black Sea army. The headquarters of the army was located first in Pyatigorsk, and then in Stavropol.^[2]

It consisted of the following regiments:

• Vladikavkaz regiment
• Volga regiment
• Gorsky (Mountain) regiment
• Grebensky regiment
• Caucasus regiment
• Kizlyar regiment
• Labinsky regiment
• Mozdok regiment
• Stavropol regiment
• Sunzhen regiment
• Terek regiment
• Urup regiment
• Khoper regiment