Dmytro Hunia (; ) was elected

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of the

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in 1638. He was one of the leaders of the Ostryanyn Uprising, a 1638

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uprising against the

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. The rebellion was sparked by the

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act of the same year that declared that non-

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are equal to ordinary peasants in their rights (and should be subjected to

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). The uprising was quelled by the forces of

Jeremi Wiśniowiecki Prince Jeremi Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, nicknamed ''Hammer on the Cossacks'' (), was a notable member of the aristocracy of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Prince of Vyshnivets, Lubny and Khorol in the Crown of the Kingdom of Pola ...

and

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. After a series of skirmishes the Cossacks capitulated at the Starzec river. Hunia and some other cossacks managed to flee to

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