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State · 1552 – 1775

Zaporozhian Sich

A state of 1552 – 1775 — 223 years in Europe. It replaced Cossack Hetmanate. The atlas records 15 things within it — wars and battles 4 · treaties 1 · people 10. Its line of rulers holds 91 people, 20 with dated terms. Its own article says it was dissolved by Catherine.

  • Wikidata records no founding for the Zaporizhian Sich. Its English article dates it c. 1552 to 1775, from the first Sich on the island of Khortytsia to its liquidation by Catherine II; the Sich moved down the Dnipro in between, and the point is Khortytsia's.
  • Wikidata's English label: Zaporizhian Sich.

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

Stood
223 years
1552 – 1775
Rulers
91
the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host
Most ground
120,700 km²
in 1662
Within it
15
recorded rows
Map: Zaporozhian Sich in 1662, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Zaporozhian Sich in 1662, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 120,700 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Cossack Hetmanate: 1648 – 1764Zaporozhian Sich: 1552 – 1775

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

How it ended, as its article says

Dissolved by Catherine, 1775-08-03. Read from the article's section “History - Destruction and aftermath” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

The Sich was officially disbanded by the 3 August 1775 manifesto of Catherine, "On the Liquidation of Zaporozhian Sich and Annexation thereof to Novorossiya Governorate", and the Sich was razed to the ground.

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

Rulers

The line of Hetman of Zaporizhian Host.

Ostafi Ruzhynsky · 1579 – 1586 · left office aliveMichał Iwanowicz Rożyński · 1579 – 1586 · left office aliveWojciech Czanowiecki · 1590 – 1590 · no death date to read the end againstIvan Kutskovych · 1602 – 1603 · no death date to read the end againstMarek Zhmaylo · 1625 – 1625 · deposed, the article saysBohdan 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 recordedLevko Shkura · 1665 – 1665 · no death date to read the end againstPetro 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 saysHryhorii Sahaidachnyi · 1687 – … · no end recordedPylyp Orlyk · 1710 – 1742 · died in office, manner not recordedDanylo Apostol · 1727 – 1734 · died in office of natural causesKirill Razumovsky · 1750 – 1764 · left office alive1600165017001750
deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Ostafi Ruzhynsky1579 – 15867 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Michał Iwanowicz Rożyński1579 – 15867 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alonesibling
Wojciech Czanowiecki1590 – 1590under a yearending not on record
Ivan Kutskovych1602 – 16031 yearending not on record
Marek Zhmaylo1625 – 1625under a yeardeposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
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
Levko Shkura1665 – 1665under a yearending not on record
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
Hryhorii Sahaidachnyi1687 – —no end recordedending not on record
Pylyp Orlyk1710 – 174232 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

91 rulers, 20 with terms dated as terms, covering 1579 – 1764. Median reign 2.5 years. 7 of 20 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”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

16801700172017401760

120,700 km² in 1662, 98,100 km² in 1772; at its largest 120,700 km² in 1662. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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.

1500 – 1599: 8 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 8 other15001600 – 1699: 3 recorded — 2 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other16001700 – 1799: 4 recorded — 2 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 2 other1700

1500 – 15998 rows

1600 – 16993 rows · 2 wars and battles

1700 – 17994 rows · 2 wars and battles

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 stood223 years

    stood longer than 65% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held120,700 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 49% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per century0.9

    had more wars on record per century than 93% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median3 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 9% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record91

    has more rulers on record than 99% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q2418795 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · 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.