cossack hetmanate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A stratocratic Zaporozhian Cossack state established by Registered Cossacks in Dnieper Ukraine and located mostly in the region of Central Ukraine, as well as in parts of Belarus and southwestern Russia (at different points also incorporating the territories of the Zaporozhian Sich to the south), which existed between 1648 and 1764, although its administrative-judicial system persisted until 1781.
Example Sentences
- "17th century Cossack Hetmanate established after uprising against Poles."
- "1649 The Cossack Hetmanate, in modern central Ukraine, is established following a rebellion against the Poles"
- "Gogol’s next collection, Mirgorod (1835), included Taras Bulba, a hugely popular story about a Cossack and his sons who join the Zaporozhian Host in their war against Poland. This was the war that brought the Cossack Hetmanate, the “first Ukrainian state”, into union with Russia in 1654."
Inflected Forms
the Cossack Hetmanate (canonical)
Synonyms
Zaporozhian Host