Khmelnytsky Uprising
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Cossack rebellion within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1648–1657
Key facts
- Location
- Eastern parts of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (mostly in the modern-day territory of Ukraine and southern parts of Belarus )
- Result
- Cossack victory , (See § Aftermath )
- Territorial changes
- Emergence of the Cossack Hetmanate Beginning of the decline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Transformation of the Orthodox population of Ukraine into a distinct polity Military intervention of the Tsardom of Russia in Cossack Hetmanate
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Encyclopedic overview
Belligerents
1648-1649 Zaporozhian Cossacks Crimean Khanate Peasant rebels
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