Cossack Hetmanate

1649–1764 Cossack state in Ukraine

group of Cossacks prominent in Central Ukraine in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries

16th to 18th-century Cossack polity in modern southern Ukraine

historical region, now located in northeastern Ukraine and southwestern Russia

Baroque style art in Ukraine

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250px|thumb|right|The Hetman's army on the march. Probably the serdyuk infantry. Part of a late 17th-century painting by an unknown Polish artist. A serdyuk (, ) was a member of mercenary infantry units kept by the Hetman's Zaporozhian Host during the second half of the 17th century and the first quarter of the 18th century. They formed the Hetman's guard and were recruited mainly from the Ukrainian population of the Cossack Hetmanate and Zaporozhian Sich. The average serdyuk regiment consisted of 400–500 soldiers. They served at the border and inside the country, and guarded the Hetman's resi

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