Cossack Rada (, ''Kozats'ka Rada'') or General Military Council was a general
Cossack assembly (council) often military in nature.
Originally established at the
Zaporizhian Sich, the
rada (council) was an institution of Cossack administration in Ukraine from the 16th to the 18th century. With the establishment of the Hetman state in 1648, it was officially known as the General Military Council until 1750.
One of the most famous of those councils was the
Chorna rada of 1663, described in the novel ''Chorna Rada'' (''The Black Council'') by
Panteleimon Kulish. At that council the Hetmanate faction of Khmelnytsky were deposed from the government and replaced by Bryukhovetsky, the first hetman who became the Russian
boyar.
Pereiaslav 1654: a historiographical study by John Basarab
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List of General Cossack Councils
* 1648 (Sich): election of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi
Bohdan Zynovii Mykhailovych Khmelnytskyi ( Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern ua, Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький; 6 August 1657) was a Ukrainian military commander and ...
as the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host
* 1654 (Pereyaslav): adaptation of the Treaty of Pereyaslav
* 1657 (Korsun): adaptation of the Treaty of Korsun, confirmation of Ivan Vyhovsky
Ivan Vyhovsky ( uk, Іван Виговський; pl, Iwan Wyhowski / Jan Wyhowski; date of birth unknown, died 1664), a Ukrainian military and political figure and statesman, served as hetman of the Zaporizhian Host and of the Cossack Hetma ...
as the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host
* 1659 (Hermanivka)
* 1663
Events
January–March
* January 10 – The Royal African Company is granted a Royal Charter by Charles II of England.
* January 23 – The Treaty of Ghilajharighat is signed in India between representatives of the Mugha ...
(Nizhyn
Nizhyn ( uk, Ні́жин, Nizhyn, ) is a city located in Chernihiv Oblast of northern Ukraine along the Oster River. The city is located north-east of the national capital Kyiv. Nizhyn serves as the administrative center of Nizhyn Raion. It ...
): election of Ivan Bryukhovetsky as the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host
* 1669 (Korsun)
* 1669 (Hlukhiv)
* 1669 (Uman), council of the three regiments
* 1684 (Mohyliv-Podilskyi)
See also
* Chorna rada of 1663
* Sich Rada
References
External links
Cossack Council
at the Dictionary on the History of Ukraine
at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
Historical legislatures
Political history of Ukraine
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