The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word COSSACKS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2012.
Once-autonomous people of southern Russia crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| COSSACKS | 100 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Once-autonomous people of southern Russia
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- cossack
- abkhazia
- chechnya
- karelia
- xizang
- mongolia
- navarre
- andalusia
- papago
- warsaw
- laos
- mali
Crossword Answer definitions
COSSACKS noun- A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, formed in part of runaways from the neighbouring countries, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian tsarist Empire (where they constituted a legendary military caste), particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine.
- A member of a military unit (typically cavalry, originally recruited exclusively from the above)
- A Ukrainian.
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