The picturesque town of Chigirin is the former capital of the Cossack state and the residence of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnitsky. Known from the first floor. XVI century as a fortified Cossack wintering on the river. Tyasmin. Chigirin was a small border fortress of the Commonwealth, the center of the Chigirin eldership. In 1592 he received the Magdeburg Law and rowed - 3 arrows. In the XVII century. the city was owned by the Konetspolsky magnates. Under them in 1638-47. one of the centurions of the Chigirinsky regiment was the Cossack B. Khmelnitsky, who owned the neighboring farm of Subbotov. Due to the conflict with the crown hetman S. Konetspolsky and the Chigirinsky old man D. Chaplinsky, Khmelnitsky started a national liberation war against Poland. Since 1648 Chigirin for 30 years became ...
Administrative status | city |
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Founded / first mentioned | XVI |
Region | Cherkasy |