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Zinkiv Regiment

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Active
  
1661–1671

Type
  
Cossack regiment

Garrison/HQ
  
Zinkiv, Ukraine

Country
  
Cossack Hetmanate

Size
  
12 sotnias

Founded
  
1661

Zinkiv Regiment

The Zinkiv Regiment (Ukrainian: Зіньківський полк, translit. Zinkovs’kyi polk) was one of the territorial-administrative subdivisions of the Cossack Hetmanate. The regiment's capital was the city of Zinkiv, now in Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine.

The Zinkiv Regiment was founded in 1661 on the territories of the disbanded Hadiach county out of the Poltava Regiment.

In 1671, the regiment was renamed Hadiach Regiment.

Structure

The regiment comprised 12 sotnias:

  • Birky
  • Hadiach
  • Hrun'
  • Komyshnia
  • Kotelva
  • Kovalivka
  • Kuzemyn
  • Lutenka
  • Opishnia
  • Rashivka
  • Vepryk
  • Zinkivsk
  • References

    Zinkiv Regiment Wikipedia