Regiment (administrative unit)

Regiment () is a historical administrative, territorial, military and judicial unit of subdivision in the Cossack Hetmanate and the Sloboda Ukraine in the 17th–18th centuries.

System was expanded out of already existing system of the Registered Cossacks over Kyiv, Bratslav and Chernihiv Voivodeships in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Regiments were headed by the Cossack Colonel () who was a member of the Cossack Council of the Officers ().

Overview

Regiment was the first level of the administrative and military division of the Cossack Hetmanate.

List of the regiments

In 1649, when the Cossack Hetmanate was established by the Treaty of Zboriv and controlled both the right and left banks, it included 16 regiments. After the loss of the Right–Bank Ukraine, a number was reduced to 10 regiments.

See also

• Cossack Hetmanate
• Sotnia
• Kurin
• Palanka (administrative unit), a similar division in the Zaporozhian Sich

Literature

• Zhukovsky, A. Regimental system. Encyclopedia of Ukraine.
• Panashenko, V. Regimental system. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine.

References

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