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Lyubetska Sotnia

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Lyubetska Sotnia
Любецька сотня
Active1656 - 1784
CountryCossack Hetmanate
TypeCossack Sotnia
Garrison/HQLiubech, Ukraine
EngagementsKhmelnytsky Uprising
Russo-Polish War (1654–67)
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Vodovolenko Petro
Vnuchko Sava

The Lyubetska Sotnia (Company) (Ukrainian: Любецька сотня, romanizedLyubetska sotnya) was one of the sixteen territorial-administrative and military units of the Chernihiv Regiment of the Cossack Hetmanate. The sotnia's center was the small town of Liubech, now in the Chernihiv Oblast of northeast Ukraine.

The sotnia was created in 1656 and occupied area on the left bank of the Dnieper River.[1] 116 settlers lived in the sotnia at the time of its founding. The territory of the sotnia was bordered by the Royiska, Bilouska and Slabynska sotnias to the east, and Osterska Sotnia of Kyiv Regiment to the south.

In 1782 the sotnia was abolished by the order Empress Catherine the Great as a territorial-administrative district. All of the sotnia's territories were included into Chernihiv namestnichestvo. In 1784 it was disbanded as military unit.[2]

Commanders

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Chief in the sotnia was sotnik (sotnia's commander, captain).

List of sotnyks:[3]

References

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  1. ^ Zaruba V.M. "Administratyvno-terytorialnyj ustrij ta administraciya Vijska Zaporozkoho u 1648-1782 rr" (Document). Dnipropetrovsk, 2007.
  2. ^ Storozhenko N.V. Reformy v Malorossii pri grafe Rumaynceve."Kievskaya starina" Magazine, N 1, 1891.
  3. ^ G.Gajecky. "The Cossack Administration of the Hetmanate" (Document). Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute,1978.-V.II.