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Article: Khmelnytsky, Bohdan (c. 1595–1657)
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KHMELNYTSKY, BOHDAN (c. 1595
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1657)
KHMELNYTSKY, BOHDAN
(c. 1595
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1657), hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Host (1648
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1657) and founder of the Hetmanate (Cossack state). Born into a family of Orthodox petty gentry, Khmelnytsky received a Jesuit education. Khmelnytsky took part in the Battle of Cecora (1620) and was taken as a prisoner to Istanbul for two years. He enlisted in the Chyhyryn Cossack regiment near his family holding of Subotiv and emerged during the Cossack revolts of 1637
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1638 as military chancellor of the Zaporozhian Host, signing the capitulation of 27 December 1637. It is possible that he served among Cossack mercenary troops in France in ...