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Regiment (administrative Unit)
Regiment or the regimental system (, ) is a historical administrative, territorial, military and judicial unit of the country's subdivision of the Cossack Hetmanate and the Sloboda Ukraine in the 17th–18th centuries. System was expanded out of already existing system of the Registered Cossacks over Kyiv, Bratslav and Chernihiv Voivodeships in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Regiments were headed by the Cossack Colonel () who was a member of the Cossack Council of the Officers (). Overview Regiment was the first level of the administrative and military division of the Cossack Hetmanate. List of the regiments In 1649, when the Cossack Hetmanate was established by the Treaty of Zboriv and controlled both the right and left banks, it included 16 regiments. After the loss of the Right–Bank Ukraine, a number was reduced to 10 regiments. See also * Cossack Hetmanate * Sotnia * Kurin Literature * Zhukovsky, A. Regimental system'. Encyclopedia of Ukraine The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cossack Hetmanate
The Cossack Hetmanate (; Cossack Hetmanate#Name, see other names), officially the Zaporozhian Host (; ), was a Ukrainian Cossacks, Cossack state. Its territory was located mostly in central Ukraine, as well as in parts of Belarus and southwestern Russia. It existed between 1649 and 1764, although its administrative-judicial system persisted until 1781. The Hetmanate was founded in the eastern territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by the Treaty of Zboriv, signed on August 18, 1649 by Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host) and Adam Kysil (representing Crown Forces), as a result of Khmelnytsky Uprising. Establishment of vassal relations with the Tsardom of Russia in the Pereiaslav Agreement, Treaty of Pereiaslav of 1654 is considered a benchmark of the Cossack Hetmanate in Soviet, Ukrainian, and Russian historiography. The second Pereiaslav Articles, Pereiaslav Council in 1659 restricted the independence of the Hetmanate, and from the Russian side there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
