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Definition of Atamans
1. ataman [n] - See also: ataman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atamans
Literary usage of Atamans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"The Poles wrote to you to make it easy for their man to get what he wanted ; and
tell me, worthy atamans, what could a Pole want ? ..."
2. Soviet Russia by Friends of Soviet Russia, Soviet Union Russian Soviet Government Bureau (New York, N.Y.) (1920)
"Among the leaders of this government were several Cossack atamans, who acted,
... It is well known in official circles that these atamans received financial ..."
3. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell (1899)
"But when the campaign was declared, the Brotherhood became an army subject to
military discipline, the atamans officers, and the hetman a dictator in ..."
4. The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu (1893)
"They elected their own atamans,'' and, among themselves, knew of neither nobles
nor serfs.* In this respect the extreme south of Russia used to resemble ..."
5. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"At times exacted by the czars, when they had no foreign enemy to fear, it was
evaded by the atamans; at times it was in some sort forgotten, whenever the ..."
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