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Bohdan Khmelnytsky

1595 - 1657

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Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky (Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern Ukrainian: Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький, Polish: Bohdan Chmielnicki; 1595 – 6 August 1657) was a Ruthenian nobleman and military commander of Zaporozhian Cossacks as Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, which was then under the suzerainty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He led an uprising against the Commonwealth and its magnates (1648–1654) that resulted in the creation of an independent Cossack state in Ukraine. In 1654, he concluded the Treaty of Pereiaslav with the Russian Tsar and allied the Cossack Hetmanate with Tsardom of Russia, thus placing central Ukraine under Russian protection. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bohdan Khmelnytsky has received more than 950,846 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Bohdan Khmelnytsky is the 43rd most popular military personnel (up from 56th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 16th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

Bohdan Khmelnytsky is most famous for leading a Ukrainian Cossack army in the mid-17th century to fight the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and establish an independent Ukraine.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Bohdan Khmelnytsky ranks 43 out of 2,058. Before him are Pyrrhus of Epirus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, T. E. Lawrence, Douglas MacArthur, Lü Bu, and Ratko Mladić. After him are Tariq ibn Ziyad, Tughril, Romulus Augustulus, Isoroku Yamamoto, Michel Ney, and Roland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1595, Bohdan Khmelnytsky ranks 2. Before him is Pocahontas. After him are Władysław IV Vasa, Injo of Joseon, Alessandro Algardi, George William, Elector of Brandenburg, Vasile Lupu, Dirck van Baburen, Jean Chapelain, Antonio Maria Abbatini, Ludovico Ludovisi, and Albert Girard. Among people deceased in 1657, Bohdan Khmelnytsky ranks 2. Before him is William Harvey. After him are Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, Frans Snyders, Balthasar van der Ast, Clara Peeters, Kâtip Çelebi, Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Jacob van Campen, Laura Mancini, Andrew Bobola, and Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Bohdan Khmelnytsky ranks 10 out of 1,365. Before him are Golda Meir (1898), Nikolai Gogol (1809), Sergei Prokofiev (1891), Stepan Bandera (1909), John III Sobieski (1629), and Kazimir Malevich (1879). After him are Joseph Conrad (1857), Hafsa Sultan (1479), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), Ilya Repin (1844), Taras Shevchenko (1814), and Helena Blavatsky (1831).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Bohdan Khmelnytsky ranks 1. After him are Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916), Nestor Makhno (1888), Semyon Timoshenko (1895), Andrey Yeryomenko (1892), Roman Shukhevych (1907), John Demjanjuk (1920), Ivan Paskevich (1782), Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895), Alexander Samsonov (1859), Mikhail Kirponos (1892), and Alfred Redl (1864).

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