Cossack Hetmanate

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This article is about the Cossack republic of 1654 to the eighteenth century. For the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic 1918–20, see Hetmanate.

The Hetmanate was a semiautonomous Cossack suzerainty in Left-bank Ukraine (East of the Dnieper River), owing fealty to the tsar of Muscovy. It was established as a result of the Treaty of Pereyaslav (Pereyaslavs'ka Rada) in 1654, and its boundaries set following the Treaty of Andrusovo (Andrusiv) of 1667, which gave Right-bank Ukraine to Poland and retained Left-bank Ukraine for Russia (at the time Muscovy).

The Hetmanate's first hetman was Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Its capital was at Chyhyryn, and later at Baturyn and Hlukhiv.

See also

• Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks
• Sloboda Ukraine
• Zaporozhian Host
• Zaporozhia (region)

 

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