Ichnia Regiment

Ichnia Regiment Ічнянський полк
Coat of Arms
Active	1648 - 1649
Country	Cossack Hetmanate
Type	Cossack Regiment
Garrison/HQ	Ichnia, Ukraine
Engagements	Khmelnytsky Uprising

Military unit

The Ichnia Regiment (Ukrainian: Ічнянський полк, romanized: Ichnianskyi polk) was one of the territorial-administrative subdivisions of the Cossack Hetmanate. The regiment's capital was the city of Ichnia, now in Chernihiv Oblast of northern Ukraine.^[1]

Regiment was raised by colonel Petro Holovatskyi in and around the town of Ichnia in January 1648,^[2] during Khmelnytsky Uprising.^[3] Shortly after Treaty of Zboriv, in October 1649, the regiment was disbanded. The regiment was reduced to 2 sotnias which were then transferred to Pryluky Regiment.

Commanders

All commanders were Colonels.^[4]

Petro Holovatskyi 1648-1649
Stepan Holovatskyi 1649

References

^ Smoliy, Valeriy; Kulchynskyi, Stanislav; Maiboroda, Oleksandr (1997). Малий словник історії України [A small dictionary of the history of Ukraine] (PDF) (in Ukrainian). Либідь. p. 175. ISBN 5-325-00781-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 February 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
^ Lazarevsky, Oleksandr (1902). Описание Старой Малороссии Том 3 Прилуцкий полк [Description of Old Little Russia Volume 3 Pryluky Regiment] (in Russian). Kyiv. p. 224.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Gajecky, George (1978). The Cossack administration of the Hetmanate. Vol. I. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. p. 264. ISBN 0-916458-02-4.
^ Gajecky, George (1978). The Cossack administration of the Hetmanate. Vol. II. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. p. 637. ISBN 0-916458-02-4.

Sources

Заруба, Віктор (2007), Адміністративно-територіальний устрій та адміністрація Війська Запорозького у 1648-1782 рр. [Administrative-territorial structure and administration of the Zaporizhzhya Army in 1648-1782.] (in Ukrainian), Dnipro: Lira, ISBN 978-966-383-095-7
Bodyansky, Osip (1974), РЕЕСТРА ВСЕГО ВОЙСКА ЗАПОРОЖСКАГО ПОСЛѢ ЗБОРОВСКАГО ДОГОВОРА [Register of all Zaporozhian Host after Treaty of Zboriv] (in Russian), Moscow: Imperial Moscow University