Hoholiv ( uk, Гоголів) is a former Cossack town, and present day village, in

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. It belongs to Velyka Dymerka settlement hromada, one of the

hromada A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...

s of Ukraine.

History

Some historians trace the origins of the town to the town Nosov on the Rud river, mentioned in ancient Russian chronicles of about 1148 CE.

17th to 19th centuries

Intensive development of the town began from the beginning of the 17th century, when it was mentioned in the sources of

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Crown of the Kingdom of ...

under the name Chocholiw. At that time it was big free

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 ...

town situated on the trade roots near Kyiv. In 1649 Hoholiv Cossack sotnia (military troop of hundred men) was formed to fight for freedom and civil liberties in Cossack army of

Bohdan Khmelnytsky Bohdan Zynovii Mykhailovych Khmelnytskyi ( Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern ua, Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький; 6 August 1657) was a Ukrainian military commander and ...

. After the incorporation of the lands of

Cossack Hetmanate The Cossack Hetmanate ( uk, Гетьманщина, Hetmanshchyna; or ''Cossack state''), officially the Zaporizhian Host or Army of Zaporizhia ( uk, Військо Запорозьке, Viisko Zaporozke, links=no; la, Exercitus Zaporoviensis) ...

into the

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in the second half of 17th century chronicles of that period mention Cossack insurgency against czarist government of that time near the village. A lot of people were killed by troops of the Muscovite Army who oppressed the insurgents. During the 17th to 19th centuries the town was part of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

. Almost all citizens were registered as the imperial registry as Cossacks - that is more free than enslaved Cossack-peasants, which constituted the majority of the Ukrainian population at that time.

20th century

After dissolution of the Russian Empire, the Russian civil war in 1917-23 and creation of the

Soviet Ukraine The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

, Hoholiv lost its status as a town and became a village.

21st century

Modern people of village community preserve the memory of their forefathers Cossacks, free people by the will of God, people who made great impact to the development of the region, and gave names to most part of its towns and villages.

References

External links

Hoholiv
at the Internet handbook of cities and towns of the Ukrainian SSR
Official website
of the Hoholiv rural community {{coord, 50, 31, 12, N, 31, 01, 45, E, type:city_source:kolossus-arwiki, display=title Villages in Brovary Raion Ostyorsky Uyezd