Lyubetska Sotnia

The Lyubetska Sotnia (Company) (Ukrainian: Любецька сотня, romanized: Lyubetska sotnya) was one of the sixteen territorial-administrative and military unit of the Chernihiv Regiment of the Cossack Hetmanate. The sotnia's center was the small town of Liubech, now in the Chernihiv Oblast of north-east Ukraine.

Lyubetska Sotnia
Любецька сотня
Active1656 - 1784
CountryCossack Hetmanate
TypeCossack Sotnia
Garrison/HQLiubech, Ukraine
EngagementsKhmelnytsky Uprising
Russo-Polish War (1654–67)
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Vodovolenko Petro
Vnuchko Sava

The sotnia was created in 1656 and occupied area on left bank Dnieper River.[1] On the territory of the sotnia were 116 settlers. The territory of the sotnia bodered by the Royiska, Bilouska and Slabynska sotnias to the east, Osterska Sotnia of Kyiv Regiment by the south.

In 1782 the sotnia was abolished by the order Empress Catherine the Great as territorial-administrative district. All of the sotnia's territories were included into Chernihiv namestnichestvo. In 1784 it was disbanded as military unit.[2]

Commanders

Chief in the sotnia was sotnik (sotnia's commander, captain.

List of sotnyks:[3]

  • Vodovolenko Petro (1656)
  • Vnuchko Sava (1656-1657)

References
  1. Zaruba V.M. "Administratyvno-terytorialnyj ustrij ta administraciya Vijska Zaporozkoho u 1648-1782 rr". Dnipropetrovsk, 2007. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. Storozhenko N.V. Reformy v Malorossii pri grafe Rumaynceve."Kievskaya starina" Magazine, N 1, 1891.
  3. G.Gajecky. "The Cossack Administration of the Hetmanate". Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute,1978.-V.II. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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