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Khmelnytsky Uprising
The
Khmelnytsky Uprising
(; ; ; also known as the
Cossack-Polish War
, or the
Khmelnytsky insurrection
) was a
Cossack
rebellion
in the
Cossack Hetmanate
, then within the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
, (the present territories of
Ukraine
,
Moldova
,
Belarus
and parts of
Russia
) in 1648–1657. Under the command of
Hetman
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
, the
Zaporozhian Cossacks
, allied with the
Crimean Tatars
and the local
peasantry
, fought against the armies and
paramilitary
forces of the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
. The insurgency was accompanied by mass atrocities committed by Cossacks against civilian population, especially against the
Roman Catholic
clergy and the Jews.
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