Editing Hetman (section)

==Hetmans of the Cossack Hetmanate in Ukraine==
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|caption2=In 1667, the Russo-Polish war ended with the Treaty of Andrusovo, which split the Cossack Hetmanate along the Dnieper River: Left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia, while Right-bank Ukraine remained part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth}}

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At the end of the sixteenth century, the commanders of the [[Zaporozhian Host|Zaporizhian]] [[Cossacks]] were titled {{lang|uk-Latn|[[Koshovyi Otaman]]}} or ''Hetman''; [[Krzysztof Kosiński|Christof Kosynsky]] was the first [[Zaporizhian Cossacks|Zaporizhian hetman]]. In 1572, a hetman was a commander of the [[Registered Cossacks|Registered Cossack Army]] ({{langx|uk|Реєстрове козацьке військо}}) of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Commonwealth]]. From 1648, the start of [[Bohdan Khmelnytsky]]'s [[Khmelnytsky Uprising|uprising]], a hetman was the head of the whole [[Ukrainian State]] — {{lang|uk-Latn|Hetmanshchyna}} and heads of the [[Cossack Hetmanate]]. As supreme military commanders and lawmakers (by administrative decree), they had very broad powers, although they were elected.

After the split of [[Ukraine]] along the [[Dnieper River]] by the 1667 [[Poland|Polish]]–[[Russia]]n [[Treaty of Andrusovo]], Ukrainian Cossacks (and Cossack hetmans) became known as Left-bank Cossacks (of the [[Cossack Hetmanate]]) and Right-bank Cossacks.

In the [[Russian Empire]], the office of Cossack Hetman was abolished by [[Catherine II of Russia]] in 1764. The last Hetman of the Zaporozhian Army (the formal title of the hetman of Ukraine) was [[Kyrylo Rozumovsky]], who reigned from 1751 until 1764.<ref>{{cite book|page=14 |chapter=The early history of Kiev |publisher=Princeton University Press |year= 1993 |title=Kiev |doi=10.1515/9781400851515-004 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400851515-004/html?lang=en}}alternate url=https://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s5285.pdf</ref>

The title was revived in Ukraine during the revolution of 1917 to 1921. In early 1918, a conservative German-supported [[Coup d'etat|coup]] overthrew the radical socialist Ukrainian [[Central Council of Ukraine|Central Rada]] and its [[Ukrainian People's Republic]], establishing a hetmanate monarchy headed by [[Pavlo Skoropadskyi]], who claimed the title ''[[Hetman of Ukraine]]''. This regime lasted until late 1918, when it was overthrown by a new [[Directorate of Ukraine]], of a re-established Ukrainian People's Republic.