Zinkiv Regiment

Zinkiv Regiment Зіньківський полк

Active	1661–1671
Country	Cossack Hetmanate
Type	Cossack regiment
Size	12 sotnias
Garrison/HQ	Zinkiv, Ukraine

The Zinkiv Regiment (Ukrainian: Зіньківський полк, translit. Zinkovs’kyi polk) was one of the territorial-administrative subdivisions of the Cossack Hetmanate. The regiment's capital was the city of Zinkiv, now in Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine.

The Zinkiv Regiment was founded in 1661 on the territories of the disbanded Hadiach county out of the Poltava Regiment.

In 1671, the regiment was renamed Hadiach Regiment.

Structure

The regiment comprised 12 sotnias:

Birky
Hadiach
Hrun'
Komyshnia
Kotelva
Kovalivka
Kuzemyn
Lutenka
Opishnia
Rashivka
Vepryk
Zinkivsk

References

Cossack Regiments

Hetmanate	Belarus Bila Tserkva Bohuslav Borzna Bratslav Vinnytsia Волинський Hadiach Глухівський Животівський Звягельський Zinkiv Irkliiv Ічнянський Kyiv Kalnyk Kaniv Korsun Kremenchuk Kropuvna Lysianka Lubny Myrhorod Mohyliv Nizhyn Novhorod Ovruch Povoloch Pereiaslav Podilia Poltava Transnistria Pryluky Сосницький Starodub Uman Fastiv Chavusy Cherkasy Chernihiv Чечельницький Chyhyryn Chernobyl

Sloboda Ukraine	Balakliia Izium Kharkiv Okhtyrka Ostrogozhsk Sumy

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