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The Cossack Hetmanate (Ukrainian: Гетьма́нщина, romanized: Hetmanshchyna; Polish: Hetmanat, Hetmańszczyzna; Russian: Ге́тманщина, romanized: Getmanshchina), officially the Zaporozhian Host or Army of Zaporozhia (Ukrainian: Військо Запорозьке, romanized: Viisko Zaporozke; Latin: Exercitus Zaporoviensis ...
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The Hetmanate coincided with a period of cultural flowering in Ukraine, particularly during the reign of hetman Ivan Mazepa.
The social structure of the Hetmanate consisted fo five groups: the nobility, the Cossacks, the clergy, the townspeople, and the peasants.
Territorial division
The Hetmanate was divided into military-administrative districts known as regimental districts (polki) whose number fluctuated with the size of the Hetmanate's territory. In 1649, when the Hetmanate controlled the Right and the Left Banks, which included 16 such districts. After the loss of the Right Bank, this number was reduced to ten. The regimental districts were further divided into companies (sotnias), which were administered by captains.
Leadership
The Hetmanate was led by the Hetman, his cabinet, and two councils, the General Council and the Council of Officers. The hetman was initially chosen by the General Council, consisting of all cossacks, townspeople, clergy and even peasants. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, its role became more ceremonial as the hetman came to be chosen by the Council of Officers. After 1709, his nomination was to be confirmed by the Tsar. The hetman ruled until he either died or was forced out....
Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Cossacks at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine.Retrieved May 5, 2020.Magocsi, Paul Robert. A History of Ukraine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. ISBN 0802008305Sichynsky, Volodymyr. Ukraine in Foreign Comments and Descriptions from the VIth the XXth Century. New York: Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, 1953. OCLC 269074Ukraine’s Cossacks are first mentioned in sources of the late fifteenth century, and their rights as an independent community were abolished by the Russian Empire in the late eighteenth century. The enduring mythology of the Cossacks paints them as semi-nomadic, semi-militarized bandits.
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Nov 21, 2023 · The Cossacks in alliance with the Tartars eliminated the combined Commonwealth and Kingdom of Poland armies and drove them to Lviv. Khmelnytsky soon became the leader of an autonomous Hetmanate.
Apr 7, 2024 · The Cossack Hetmanate, officially the Zaporizhian Host or Army of Zaporizhia, was a Cossack state in the region of what is today Central Ukraine between 1648 and 1764 (although its administrative-judicial system persisted until 1782).
From the 1648 Bohdan Khmelnytsky uprising, Hetman was the title of the head of the Cossack state, the Cossack Hetmanate. Cossack hetmans had very broad powers and acted as supreme military commanders and executive leader (by issuing administrative decrees).
A Ukrainian Cossack polity (1648 – 1781) ruled by a hetman, the Hetmanate is also referred to as "Little Russia." The Hetmanate emerged as a result of the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648), which swept Polish authority from central Ukraine.
