Cossack Rada (, ''Kozats'ka Rada'') or General Military Council was a general

Cossack The Cossacks , es, cosaco , et, Kasakad, cazacii , fi, Kasakat, cazacii , french: cosaques , hu, kozákok, cazacii , it, cosacchi , orv, коза́ки, pl, Kozacy , pt, cossacos , ro, cazaci , russian: казаки́ or ...

assembly (council) often military in nature. Originally established at the Zaporizhian Sich, the rada (council) was an institution of Cossack administration in Ukraine from the 16th to the 18th century. With the establishment of the Hetman state in 1648, it was officially known as the General Military Council until 1750. One of the most famous of those councils was the Chorna rada of 1663, described in the novel ''Chorna Rada'' (''The Black Council'') by

Panteleimon Kulish Panteleimon Oleksandrovych Kulish (also spelled ''Panteleymon'' or ''Pantelejmon Kuliš'', uk, Пантелеймон Олександрович Куліш, August 7, 1819 – February 14, 1897) was a Ukrainian writer, critic, poet, folklori ...

. At that council the Hetmanate faction of Khmelnytsky were deposed from the government and replaced by Bryukhovetsky, the first hetman who became the Russian

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List of General Cossack Councils

* 1648 (Sich): election of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi as the

Hetman of Zaporizhian Host The Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host ( uk, Гетьман Війська Запорозького, la, Cosaccorum Zaporoviesium Supremus Belli Dux) was the head of state of the Cossack Hetmanate in what is now Ukraine. The office was disestablishe ...

* 1654 (Pereyaslav): adaptation of the

Treaty of Pereyaslav The Pereiaslav AgreementPereyaslav Agreement

1657 Events January–March * January 8 – Miles Sindercombe and his group of disaffected Levellers are betrayed, in their attempt to assassinate Oliver Cromwell, by blowing up the Palace of Whitehall in London, and arrested. * Febru ...

(Korsun): adaptation of the Treaty of Korsun, confirmation of

Ivan Vyhovsky Ivan Vyhovsky ( uk, Іван Виговський; pl, Iwan Wyhowski / Jan Wyhowski; 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 Hetma ...

as the

* 1659 (Hermanivka) *

1663 Events January–March * January 10 – The Royal African Company is granted a Royal Charter by Charles II of England. * January 23 – The Treaty of Ghilajharighat is signed in India between representatives of the Mughal ...

( Nizhyn): election of Ivan Bryukhovetsky as the

* 1669 (Korsun) * 1669 (Hlukhiv) * 1669 (Uman), council of the three regiments * 1684 (Mohyliv-Podilskyi)

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Cossack Council
at the Dictionary on the History of Ukraine

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List of General Cossack Councils

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