Hetman

Hetman is a political title, historically assigned to military commanders. It was the title of the secondhighest military commander in 15th to 18thcentury Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which together, from 1569 to 1795, comprised the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, or Rzeczpospolita. For much of the history of the Principality of Moldavia, the Hetman was the second in rank in the army after the ruling prince . Hetman was also the highest military office in Ukraines Hetmanates, the Zaporizhian Host and Ukrainian State . The title was used by Ukraines Cossacks from the 16th century, and by the Czechs in Bohemia from the Hussite Wars on. Hejtman is today the term for the elected governor of a Czech region .

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