The Cossack state born of Khmelnytsky's 1648 uprising against Poland — an elective military republic on the Dnieper that Ukrainians look back to as a national founding.
Its autonomy was whittled away by St Petersburg until Catherine II abolished the office of hetman in 1764 and the regimental order soon after.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Cossack Hetmanate — the shape you scrub through changes in 1648 · 1675.
Places the Hetmanate at the centre of Ukraine's national story.
Detailed narrative of the Cossack polity's rise and absorption.