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hetman
thumb|Grand Crown Hetman Jan Amor Tarnowski by [[Marcello Bacciarelli, 1781]]
Hetman is a political title from Central and Eastern Europe, historically assigned to military commanders (comparable to a field marshal or imperial marshal in the Holy Roman Empire). First used by the Czechs in Bohemia in the 15th century, it was the title of the second-highest military commander after the king in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 16th to 18th centuries. Hetman was also the title of the head of the Cossack state in Ukraine after the Khmelnytsky Uprising of
Jan Tarnowski
Polish noble and writer
Jan Hieronimowicz Chodkiewicz
Polish-Lithuanian noble (1537-1579)
Krzysztof Kosiński
noble
Dobiesław of Oleśnica
Polish statesman