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State · 1648 – 1764

Cossack Hetmanate

A state of 1648 – 1764 — 116 years in Europe. It followed Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was replaced by Russian Empire, Zaporozhian Sich and Danubian Sich. The atlas records 26 things within it — wars and battles 1 · unrest and atrocity 1 · treaties 1 · people 23. Its line of rulers holds 49 people, 15 with dated terms. Its own article says it was conquered.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
116 years
1648 – 1764
Rulers
49
the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host
Within it
26
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth: 1569 – 1795Zaporozhian Sich: 1552 – 1775Russian Empire: 1721 – 1917Cossack Hetmanate: 1648 – 1764

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

After it

How it ended, as its article says

Conquered, 1764. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

Catherine II of Russia officially abolished the position of Hetman in 1764, and from 1764 to 1781, the Cossack Hetmanate was incorporated as the Little Russia Governorate headed by Pyotr Rumyantsev, with the last remnants of the Hetmanate's administrative system abolished in 1781.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

The line of Hetman of Zaporizhian Host - the office this state names as its head of state.

Bohdan Khmelnytsky · 1648 – 1657 · died in office of natural causesYurii Khmelnytsky · 1657 – 1657 · left office aliveIvan Vyhovsky · 1657 – 1659 · left office aliveYurii Khmelnytsky · 1659 – 1660 · left office alivePavlo Teteria · 1663 – 1665 · left office aliveIvan Briukhovetsky · 1663 – 1668 · died in office, manner not recordedPetro Doroshenko · 1668 – 1669 · left office aliveDemian Mnohohrishny · 1669 – 1672 · left office aliveIvan Samoylovych · 1672 – 1687 · left office aliveGeorge Ducas · 1681 – 1683 · left office aliveIvan Mazepa · 1687 – 1708 · exiled, imprisoned or confined, the article saysIvan Skoropadsky · 1708 – 1722 · died in office, manner not recordedPylyp Orlyk · 1710 – 1742 · died in office, manner not recordedPavlo Polubotok · 1722 – 1724 · died in office, manner not recordedDanylo Apostol · 1727 – 1734 · died in office of natural causesKirill Razumovsky · 1750 – 1764 · left office alive166016801700172017401760
deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roada second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Bohdan Khmelnytsky1648 – 16579 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Yurii Khmelnytsky1657 – 1657under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alonechild
Ivan Vyhovsky1657 – 16592 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Yurii Khmelnytsky1659 – 16601 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Pavlo Teteria1663 – 16652 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Ivan Briukhovetsky1663 – 16685 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Petro Doroshenko1668 – 16691 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Demian Mnohohrishny1669 – 16723 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Ivan Samoylovych1672 – 168715 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
George Ducas1681 – 16832 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Ivan Mazepa1687 – 170821 yearsexiled, imprisoned or confined, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Ivan Skoropadsky1708 – 172214 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Pylyp Orlyk1710 – 174232 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Pavlo Polubotok1722 – 17242 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Danylo Apostol1727 – 17347 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Kirill Razumovsky1750 – 176414 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone

49 rulers, 15 with terms dated as terms, covering 1648 – 1764. Median reign 4 years. 5 of 15 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Herb Viyska Zaporozkoho
    coat of arms, undatedHerb Viyska Zaporozkoho · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Alex Tora
  • Flag of the Cossack Hetmanate
    flag, undatedFlag of the Cossack Hetmanate · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1600 – 1699: 22 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 1 risings, regime changes and massacres, 20 other16001700 – 1799: 3 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 3 other1700

1600 – 169922 rows · 1 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 14 more in the atlas.

1700 – 17993 rows

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood116 years

    stood longer than 50% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • Wars recorded per centurynone

    had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median5 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record49

    has more rulers on record than 97% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 4 causes the record names and 4 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth · Linked · 1569 – 1795 · “In response, the army of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, along with Crimean Tatars, launched a campaign against the Ukrainian Bratslav region.”Polish–Lithuanian CommonwealthKhmelnytsky Uprising · In the article · 1648 · “The Hetmanate existed between 1648 and 1764, although its administrative-judicial system persisted until 1781. The Hetmanate was legally recognized in the eas…”Khmelnytsky UprisingCossack Hetmanate · 1648 – 1764Cossack HetmanateDanubian Sich · Linked · 1775 – 1828Danubian SichRussian Empire · Linked · 1721 – 1917Russian EmpireZaporozhian Sich · Linked · 1555 – 1775Zaporozhian Sich1600170018001900
in the articlelinked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

  • Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling

    Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009

    Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.

    • the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 116

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q212439 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.