Word: sotnja
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...Frederiksen's "Hughes-ovka" (TIME, Feb. 2) is a tour de force. There are a number of hamlets scattered all over the Kuban country and the North Caucasus with the prefix "Youz" or "Yuz" which is Turco-Tartar for "hundred" and denotes the original post of a Sotnja or a troop of one hundred Cossacks. The language of the Cossacks is full of words of Tartar origin and so are the names of their villages. Any bets...
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