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Pylyp Orlyk's March On The Right-bank Ukraine
Pylyp Orlyk's March on the Right-bank Ukraine () was the military campaign of the Hetman Pylyp Orlyk on the Right-bank Ukraine in January–March 1711 in order to liberate its territory from Moscow's troops and to restore the hetman's power. Due to improper training, bad timing and betrayal of Tatar allies, the campaign ended in the defeat of Orlyk's troops and led to the loss of support for the hetman among the Ukrainian population. Preconditions The defeat of Swedish and Cossack troops Battle of Poltava, near Poltava, the punitive expedition of Moscow troops to Ukraine and the destruction of the Zaporozhian Sich, which took place in 1709, radically changed the balance of forces in Ukraine. After the military defeat, hetman Ivan Mazepa together with Cossack starshyna (senior Cossack officers) were forced to emigrate to Bendery (modern Bender, Moldova, Tighina, Moldova), the Ottoman Empire territory, where he died in September 1709. Six months after Mazepa's death, on April 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pilip Orlik Campaign 1711
Pilip is a masculine given name, cognate to Philip. It may refer to: * Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin (floruit, fl. 1579–1590), Irish hereditary historian * Pilip Vaitsiakhovich (born 1990), Belarusian football player Pilip is also a surname of: * Ivan Pilip (born 1963), Czech politician and economist * Mazi Melesa Pilip, Ethiopian-born American politician See also * Filip * Pylyp {{given name, type=both Irish masculine given names Masculine given names Belarusian masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Crimean Khanate
The Crimean Khanate, self-defined as the Throne of Crimea and Desht-i Kipchak, and in old European historiography and geography known as Little Tartary, was a Crimean Tatars, Crimean Tatar state existing from 1441 to 1783, the longest-lived of the Turkic peoples, Turkic khanates that succeeded the empire of the Golden Horde. Established by Hacı I Giray in 1441, it was regarded as the direct heir to the Golden Horde and to Cumania, Desht-i-Kipchak. In 1783, violating the 1774 Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (which had guaranteed non-interference of both Russia and the Ottoman Empire in the affairs of the Crimean Khanate), the Annexation of the Crimean Khanate by the Russian Empire, Russian Empire annexed the khanate. Among the European powers, only France came out with an open protest against this act, due to the longstanding Franco-Ottoman alliance. Naming and geography The Crimean Khans, considering their state as the heir and legal successor of the Golden Horde and Desht-i Kipcha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rașcov
Rașcov (; alternative names , ; ; ; ) is one of the oldest communes of Transnistria. It is located in the northern part, between Rîbnița and Camenca. It is composed of two villages, Iantarnoe (Янтарне, Янтарное) and Rașcov. History Rașcov village was founded in 1402 as a trading post on the Dniester river. Some maintain that the name derives from the Romanian term for '' Lactarius deliciosus'', a species of mushroom-forming fungus. However, there are a number of settlements across Poland and Ukraine with the same name, casting doubt on this claim. Rashkov () is also a Bulgarian male surname. One of the oldest villages of Transnistria, it is known for having been home in the past to a significant Polish population. From the 15th century, all of northern Transnistria was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and later to the Kingdom of Poland in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1793) which encouraged the migration of peasants into the territor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kost Hordiienko
Kost Hordiienko (; unknown – 15 May 1733) was a Zaporozhian Cossack Kish otaman. After 1709 he allied with Ivan Mazepa, and co-authored the Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk. Hordiienko was born in the Poltava region, Hetmanate. He studied at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Later he joined the Zaporizhian Sich, headed the Cossack troops (1702–1706, 1707–1709, 1710–1728). As an ally of Mazepa, he fought in the Battle of Poltava. On 6 May 2019, the 57th Motorized Brigade of the Ukrainian Army received the honorary name of ''Kost Hordiienko''. Origin Dmytro Yavornytskyi, a Ukrainian specialist in the history of the Ukrainian Cossacks, believed that Hordiienko came from the Poltava region, while Apollon Skalkowski, a researcher of Polish origin, assumed that he was from Volhynia, from the Ukrainian noble family of the . In favor of the first option, the fact that it was customary to attach the surname to the father's name was in Left-bank Ukraine, but not in Volhynia. Biography Hor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
