The Zinkiv Regiment was one of the territorial-administrative subdivisions of the Cossack Hetmanate

Cossack Hetmanate

The Hetmanate or Zaporizhian Host was the Ruthenian Cossack state in the Central Ukraine between 1649 and 1782.The Hetmanate was founded by first Ukrainian hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky during the Khmelnytsky Uprising . In 1654 it pledged its allegiance to Muscovy during the Council of Pereyaslav,...

. The regiment's capital was the city of Zinkiv

Zinkiv

Zinkiv is a city in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. The population is 10,577 ....

, now in Poltava Oblast

Poltava Oblast

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 of central Ukraine

Ukraine

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

In the 1671 the Regiment was renamed Hadiach Regiment.

Structure

The regiment was compromised of 12 sotnias:

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