What was the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648 in Ukraine?

The Khmelnytsky Uprising

Хмельниччина

1648. In 1648 Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky raised the Cossacks against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Where: Ukraine

What happened

In 1648 Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky raised the Cossacks against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. With Crimean Tatar allies they won at Zhovti Vody and Korsun in the spring, and the uprising spread across the country. It created the Cossack state known as the Hetmanate. The war was also marked by mass killings of civilians, among them many thousands of Jews. In 1654 at Pereiaslav Khmelnytsky made an agreement with the Muscovite tsar, whose meaning historians still debate. He died in Chyhyryn in 1657.

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У 1648 році Богдан Хмельницький підняв повстання.

In 1648 Bohdan Khmelnytsky raised a rising.

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