The haidamakas, also haidamaky or haidamaks (singular haidamaka, Гайдамаки, Haidamaky) were according to this exonym, known from 1737 as paramilitary bands in 18th-century Ukraine. == Terminology == The Romanian word haidamac (vagabond), may originate from the Turkish haydamak (to pursue). Other more ancient exonyms of the same haidamaks ...