Note 1 — Chapter VI · (d) Songs of the Cossack and of Haydamaki[1] Era
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Haydamaki is a Turkish word for a robber, a highwayman; this word was originally applied to the Ukrainian Cossack bands who inveighed guerrillas against the Turks. With the progress of time the Ukrainian peasants rebelled against the Polish rule of nobility and the economic oppression and expropriation by Poles and Jews in Ukraine—applied this word to themselves as a meaning for self-defense.