The Mukha Rebellion started in 1490 in Galicia, and was led by Petro Mukha. Its purpose was overthrowing

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control of Galicia. Mukha started the revolt in

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in the late 15th century, in 1490. The revolt quickly spread to neighboring territories, across nearly all southeastern Galicia. Mukha, supported by the Moldavian voivode Stephen the Great, marched to

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with an army of 10,000 people. The rebel army was composed of both

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and Moldavian peasants from places like Bukovina. In the army there were also Orthodox petty gentry noblemen originally from Pokuttia, as well as burghers (''mischany'' / ''mistychi''). The ten-thousand-man army led by Mukha conquered the fortified cities of

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, and

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, killing a considerable number of enemy noblemen and burghers as they went. As the army was advancing to Lviv, it was blocked by a combined force of Polish Royal Army soldiers, a '' levée en masse'' of Galician magnates, and

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mercenaries. At the Battle of Rohatyn, near

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, present-day Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, the army suffered a crushing defeat and most of the rebels were killed. However, Mukha survived, and fled back to

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with the other survivors. Mukha returned to Galicia in 1492, in an unsuccessful attempt to stir up another rebellion. He was captured in the area of

, and reportedly died in a prison in

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