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The Cossacks,[a] a group of predominantly East Slavic-speaking Orthodox Christian people, who became known as members of democratic, self-governing, semi-military communities, originating in the Pontic steppe (north of the Black Sea).[1] They inhabited sparsely-populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper,[2][date missing] Don, Terek and Ural river basins and played an important role in the historical and cultural development both of Ukraine and of Russia.[3][4]