Chmelnytsky-opstand

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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Wikidata facts

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Bohdan Khmelnytsky with Tugay Bey at Lviv by Jan Matejko (1885).png