of the Tatars against Ukrainian territories as far west as Galicia, in return provoking raids by Ottoman vassals, the Tatars. The more independent Army of Lower Zaporozhia was centered at the Old Sich (Stara Sich). In 1709, Tsar Peter I ordered the destruction of the Old Sich, forcing the Zaporozhian Cossacks to flee to Oleshky, on the Black Sea in Ottoman territory. In 1734, the Russians allowed the Cossacks to re-establish their republic as the Free Lands of the Zaporozhian Host, based at the New Sich (Nova Sich), but brought in many foreign settlers, and destroyed the Sich for good in 1775, incorporating the territory into New Russia. In the population Zaporozhye lands in the late 1970s to early 1980s of the XVIII century after liquidation Zaporozhian Sich (1775) (uk) prevailed Ukrainians. In 1779, they accounted for 64.36% of the total population of this region. On the second the place among others ethnic group was occupied by the Greeks (13.76%), followed by Armenians (10.61%) and Russian (8.09%). Economy Some historians estimate, that an average peasant's hut did not last over 10 years. In the years 1605–1633, for example, Red Ruthenian lands suffered 100,000 people taken captive by the Ottomans, and 24,000 dead; in the first half of the 17th century, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, controlling Zaporizhzhia, lost approximately 300,000 of people due to the Ottoman raids. Legacy It was after this region, a city of Zaporizhzhia received its name in 1921 previously known as Aleksandrovsk. Gallery See also Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth#Voivodships of Lesser Poland Dmytro Yavornytsky, historian of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. Cossack with musket Notes External links Zaporizhia at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine Mytsyk, Yu. Free lands of the Zaporizhian Host, the Lower. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. Historical regions in Ukraine