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The Khmelnytsky Uprising, also known as the Cossack–Polish War, or the Khmelnytsky insurrection, was a Cossack rebellion that took place between 1648 and 1657 in the eastern territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which led to the creation of a Cossack Hetmanate in Ukraine.
The uprising in the Ukrainian territories against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth began in early 1648 under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (c. 1595 – 1657), a Cossack officer proclaimed hetman.
May 8, 2023 · In particular, Khmelnytsky's Uprising was caused by the cancellation of a planned war, greater restrictions on Cossack armies, and the snatching of Khmelnytsky's estate by a...
The Poles campaigned actively during the winter of 1654-1655, and while the Ukrainian army with Russian support held off the Tatars and the Poles at Okhmativ (29-30 January 1655), Tatar attacks reached Khmel'nyts'kyi's capital, Chyhyryn. The outbreak of the First Northern War (1655-1660) had major.
The Khmelnytsky Uprising, also known as the Cossack–Polish War, or the Khmelnytsky insurrection, was a Cossack rebellion that took place between 1648 and 1657 in the eastern territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which led to the creation of a Cossack Hetmanate in Ukraine.
Jul 26, 2017 · The uprisings affected all the neighboring empires and states, including Muscovy, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Transylvania, Moldavia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Tatar Khanate. The events also had a devastating effect on Polish Jewry.
In the two most infamous massacres of Jewish communities during the initial phase of the uprising, the Cossacks led the attack on the Jews in Nemyriv in early June 1648 but not in Tul’chyn just a couple of weeks later.
