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pursued the troops of Tatars in Podillya
region together with local Cossacks, who
knew much about the territory. In 1492 the
Grand prince of Lithuania Oleksandr wrote in
response to the Crimean khan Mengli I Giray
that he had ordered to find the property from
the plundered Tatar ships under Tyahynya
and make a search among local Cossacks.
1490-1492 The uprising under the command of Mukha,
it was the biggest uprising in Ukraine of the
14-th-15-th centuries against Polish-szlachta
suppression. It enclosed Halychyna, Pokuttya,
Bukovyna, Moldavia. It ended in failure.
1552-1557 The formation of the fortress on Khortytsia
island by the Cherkasy headman Dmytro
Vyshnevetskyi. It initiated Zaporizhian Sich.
1572 The formation of the Cossack register army
by order of the Polish king Sigismund II
Augustus, who employed 300 Cossacks for
public service. They were recorded into a
special list – the register. In 1576-1578 king
Stephen Bathory increased the register up to
500 men and granted them a set of priviliges
(Latin – priva lex-private law):
1) the right of rank land ownership (land was
given for service);
2) exemption from taxes;
3) the right of own military, administrative
and court jurisdiction;
4) payment for the service;
5) imperial regalia, guns;
6) The town of Trakhtemyriv with a
monastery and a hospital, etc.

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