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Treaty Of Zborów
The Treaty of Zboriv was signed on August 18, 1649, after the Battle of Zboriv (1649), Battle of Zboriv when the Crown of the Polish Kingdom, Crown forces of about 35,000, led by King John II Casimir of Poland, clashed against a combined force of Zaporozhian Cossacks, Cossacks and Crimean Tatars, led by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Khan İslâm III Giray of Crimea respectively, which numbered about 50,000. The Treaty of Zboriv consisted of two separate agreements between Ukraine and the Commonwealth and between Crimea and the Commonwealth. The Treaty of Zboriv plays an important role in history of Ukraine as it turned the former mutineers against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth into citizens of a Cossack Hetmanate, new political community. Signing parties * Ukrainian side representatives: Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Ivan Vyhovsky * Polish side representatives: Adam Kysil, Jerzy Ossoliński, Janusz Radziwiłł (1612–1655), Janusz Radziwiłł, Władysław Dominik Zasławski Points o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Language
Ukrainian (, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Ukraine. It is the first language, first (native) language of a large majority of Ukrainians. Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of the Cyrillic script. The standard language is studied by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Potebnia Institute of Linguistics. Comparisons are often made between Ukrainian and Russian language, Russian, another East Slavic language, yet there is more mutual intelligibility with Belarusian language, Belarusian,Alexander M. Schenker. 1993. "Proto-Slavonic", ''The Slavonic Languages''. (Routledge). pp. 60–121. p. 60: "[The] distinction between dialect and language being blurred, there can be no unanimity on this issue in all instances..."C.F. Voegelin and F.M. Voegelin. 1977. ''Classification and Index of the World's Languages'' (Elsevier). p. 311, "In terms of immediate mutual intelligibility, the East Slavic zone is a sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Vyhovsky
Ivan Vyhovsky (; ; date of birth unknown, died 1664), a Ukrainian military and political figure and statesman, served as hetman of the Zaporizhian Host and of the Cossack Hetmanate for three years (1657–1659) during the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667). He succeeded the famous hetman and rebel leader Bohdan Khmelnytsky (see Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks). His time as hetman was characterized by his generally pro- Polish policies, which led to his defeat by pro-Russian elements among the Cossacks. Vyhovsky belonged to the Orthodox noble family of the Vyhovsky coat of arms Abdank. Origin and family Vyhovsky was born in his family estate of Vyhiv, near Ovruch in the Kyiv Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, a son of Ostap Vyhovsky, a vicegerent of the Kyiv fortress under voivode Adam Kisiel and an Orthodox nobleman from the Kyiv region. There is also a possibility that the birth occurred at another family estate, Hoholiv, located near Kyiv (now Brovary Raion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bratslav
Bratslav (, ; ) is a rural settlement in Ukraine, located in Tulchyn Raion of Vinnytsia Oblast, by the Southern Bug river. It is a medieval European city and a regional center of the Eastern Podolia region (see Bracław Voivodeship) founded by government of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, which dramatically lost its importance during the 19th–20th centuries. Population: Name In addition to the Ukrainian (''Bratslav''), in other languages the name of the city is and , ''Bratslev''. Today also pronounced Breslev or '' Breslov'' as the name of a Hasidic group, which originated from this town. History The first written mention of Bratslav dates back to 1362. City status was granted Magdeburg Rights in 1564. Bratslav belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania until the Lublin Union of 1569, when it became a voivodeship center in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland as part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In the early 16th century, the Starosta of Bratslav and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia ( ; , ) is a city in west-central Ukraine, located on the banks of the Southern Bug. It serves as the administrative centre, administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast. It is the largest city in the historic region of Podillia. It also serves as the administrative center of Vinnytsia Raion, one of the six raions of Vinnytsia Oblast. It has a population of The city's roots date back to the Middle Ages. It was under Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Lithuanian and Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish control for centuries. From 1653 to 1667, Vinnytsia was a regimental city of the Cossack Hetmanate, Hetman state, and in 1793, it was ceded to the Russian Empire. During the 1930s and early 1940s, the city was the site of massacres, first during Joseph Stalin, Stalin's purges and then during the Holocaust in Ukraine and the Nazi occupation. A Cold War–era Havryshivka Vinnytsia International Airport, airbase was located near the city. Currently, Vinnytsia is developing as one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pryluky
Pryluky ( ) is a city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality located on the Udai River in Chernihiv Oblast, north-central Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Pryluky Raion (Raion, district). Located nearby is the Pryluky (air base), Pryluky air base, a major strategic bomber base during the Cold War, which is Ukraine's largest airfield. Population: History Archeological excavations have shown that a settlement on the territory of the present-day city dates back to the second millennium BC. According to one explanation, the city derived its name from its location, being situated on a turn in the river that looked like a bow when viewed from above. Another theory holds that the city's name connotes the idea of being situated “on floodplain meadows”. Pryluky was first mentioned in 1085 by Prince Vladimir II Monomakh, Vlаdimir Monomakh in his ''Precepts To My Children''. That year the city-fortress sheltered the prince and his entourage from the horde of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pohrebyshche
Pohrebyshche ( ) is a small List of cities in Ukraine, city in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. It served as the administrative center of Pohrebyshche Raion (Raion, district) until its abolishment in 2020, when it was incorporated into Vinnytsia Raion. Pohrebyshche is situated near the sources of the Ros River. Population: Names Pohrebyshche has many names in other languages: , or or , . History The town is very old and origin of its name is not clear. ''Pohrebyshche'' means ''a big Basement, cellar'' in Ukrainian. On the other hand, ''Pohrebaty'' can be interpreted as ''to perform a burial''. According to Imperial Russian ethnographer Lavrentii Pokhylevych in his work "Tales of inhabited areas of the Kyiv province" in 1884, before the Mongol invasion of Rus, during the times of Kyiv the town was called ''Rokitnya''. Mongols leveled the town leaving only the cellars. The first time the town was mentioned in written sources was in 1148. For many years it belonged to the Kiev V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavoloch
Pavoloch (also known as ''Pavolitsh'' in Yiddish, ''Pawolotsch'' in German language, German, Па́волочь in Russian language, Russian and ''Pawołocz'' in Polish language, Polish) is a village, selo in Zhytomyr Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast in central Ukraine. It was a town of the Cossack Hetmanate and an administrative seat of Pavoloch Regiment (province). Jewish history It is estimated that Pavoloch was founded sometime in the Middle Ages, but it first appeared on Ruthenian chronicles in 1503. The majority of Pavoloch's inhabitants were Jews. The Jews in Pavoloch, as in many other Shtetl, shtetls, were victims of constant prejudice. When they got fed up with being harassed, the citizens build a wooden fort around their shtetl, which gave Pavoloch's inhabitants increased protection against invaders. It was a good thing that the people of Pavoloch built their fort, because their settlement was a constant pit-stop for advancing and retreating armies. Aside from the occasional prej ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korostyshiv
Korostyshiv (, ; ; ) is a city in Zhytomyr Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. Prior to 2020, it served as the administrative center of the former Korostyshiv Raion. Population: History The city was founded around the VI-VII centuries. According to legend, the town was called Khminychi and was the center of one of the Drevlians tribes, the Minskians. The first written mention as a village of Zhitomirsky Uyezd, Kyiv Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania dates back to March 26, 1499. For sixty-five years it belonged to the Chornobyl Kmyts, a well-known and influential family of Right-bank Ukraine. Since 1565, after it was sold by Filon Kmita, the town became the property of the Olizar family, who later received the title of counts. In July 1768, Ivan Bondarenko's Cossacks visited the town. In 1779, Magdeburg rights and a coat of arms were granted with the image of the family emblem of the Olizar Counts: a golden church flag with a cross on a red background (noble Radwan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hornostaipil
Hornostaipil (, , Yiddish: ''Horensteipl, Hornosteipel'') is a Ukrainian village in northern Ukraine, which is part of Vyshhorod Raion within Kyiv Oblast. It belongs to Ivankiv settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Geography The village is located on the Teteriv River and the Kyiv Reservoir. Part of the former Chernobyl Raion until 1988, it is one of the few villages of this former district that was outside of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. History Until 18 July 2020, Hornostaipil belonged to Ivankiv Raion. The raion was abolished that day as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast to seven. The area of Ivankiv Raion was merged into Vyshhorod Raion. From February to April 2022, Hornstaipil was occupied by Russia as a result of the 2022 invasion. Notable people *Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky was from Hornostaipil. *Rabbi Mordechai Dov Ber Twersky (Auerbach) served as Rabbi in Hornosteipel from 1863 unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dnieper
The Dnieper or Dnepr ( ), also called Dnipro ( ), is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. Approximately long, with a drainage basin of , it is the longest river of Ukraine and Belarus and the fourth- longest river in Europe, after the Volga, Danube, and Ural rivers. In antiquity, the river was part of the Amber Road trade routes. During the Ruin in the later 17th century, the area was contested between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia, dividing what is now Ukraine into areas described by its right and left banks. During the Soviet period, the river became noted for its major hydroelectric dams and large reservoirs. The 1986 Chernobyl disaster occurred on the Pripyat River, a tributary of the Dnieper, just upstream from its confluence with the Dnieper. The Dnieper is an important navigable waterway for the economy of Ukraine and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Registered Cossacks
Registered Cossacks (, ) comprised special Cossack units of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth army in the 16th and 17th centuries. Registered Cossacks became a military formation of the Commonwealth army beginning in 1572 soon after the Union of Lublin (1569), when most of the territory of modern Ukraine passed to the Crown of Poland. Registered Cossack formations were based on the Zaporozhian Cossacks who already lived on the lower reaches of the Dnieper River amidst the Pontic steppes as well as on self-defense formations within settlements in the region of modern Central and Southern Ukraine. History Origins In 1524, King Sigismund I commissioned Semen Połozowicz and Krzysztof Kmitycz to organize permanent Cossack units to defend the lower Dnieper; however, the plan was not implemented due to a lack of funds. The starosta of Cherkasy, Ostap Dashkevych, revived the idea at the 1533 Polish Sejm in Piotrków Trybunalski. Dashkevych tried to show that in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Władysław Dominik Zasławski
Prince Wladysław Dominik Zasławski-Ostrogski (ca. 1616 – 1656) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic) of Ruthenian stock. Prince of the Princely Houses of Poland, Ostroh Ordynat, Grand Koniuszy of The Crown. Zasławski was the most powerful magnate in Volhynia at that time. He was voivode of Sandomierz Voivodeship from 1645 and voivode of Kraków Voivodeship from 1649. Starosta of Lutsk 1639–1653, regimentarz of the Crown 1648, second richest, after Stanisław Lubomirski, Polish magnate. Thanks to chancellor Jerzy Ossoliński elected on Convocation Sejm as one of three regimentarz of the '' pospolite ruszenie'' during the Battle of Pyliavtsi in 1648. Because of his incompetence as a main ''regimentarz'' the battle were lost. In 1651 he participated in the Battle of Beresteczko. During the Swedish invasion (" The Deluge") was loyal to the king John Casimir Vasa, he prepared the defence of Przemyśl. Since the third decade of 17th century his barony was Stare Sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
