[Russ. сотня sotnya hundred, f. sot-, related to Skr. śatam, L. centum, etc.] A squadron of Cossack cavalry.
1863. Kinglake, Crimea, II. xiv. 212. He had … a brigade of regular cavalry, and nine sotnias of Cossacks.
1878. G. B. McClellan, in N. Amer. Rev., CXXVI. 150. On the 11th a party of Cossacks reached Pescherna from Lovatz; one sotnia turned northward and successfully attacked Toros.
