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Lyubetska Sotnia

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Active
  
1656 - 1784

Type
  
Cossack Sotnia

Country
  
Cossack Hetmanate

Garrison/HQ
  
Liubech, Ukraine

Engagements
  
Khmelnytsky Uprising Russo-Polish War (1654–67)

Notable commanders
  
Vodovolenko Petro Vnuchko Sava

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

The sotnia was created in 1656 and occupied area on left bank Dnieper River. On the territory of the sotnia were 116 settlers. The territory of the sotnia bodered by the Royiska, Bilouska and Slabynska sotnias to the east, Osterska Sotnia of Kyiv Regiment by the south.

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

Commanders

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

List of sotnyks:

  • Vodovolenko Petro (1656)
  • Vnuchko Sava (1656-1657)
  • References

    Lyubetska Sotnia Wikipedia