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Ladislaus IV
Ladislaus IV 1595-1648, king of Poland (1632-48), son and successor of Sigismund III . His reign was marked by struggles with his subjects and wars with the Swedes, the Russians, and the Ottomans. Ladislaus in his later years vainly sought to establish authority over the nobles. The Cossack revo... Read more
Alexis
Alexis (Aleksey Mikhailovich) , 1629-76, czar of Russia (1645-76), son and successor of Michael. His reign, marked by numerous popular outbreaks, was crucial for the later development of Russia. A new code of laws was promulgated in 1648 and remained in effect until the early 19th cent.; it favore... Read more
Poltava
Poltava , city (1989 pop. 315,000), capital of Poltava region, E Ukraine, on the Kiev-Kharkiv highway and on the Vorskla River, a tributary of the Dnieper. It is an industrial center and important rail junction in the rich black-earth agricultural region. The city has railroad shops, food- and tobac... Read more
Zaporizhzhya
Zaporizhzhya , Rus. Zaporozhye, city (1989 pop. 884,000), capital of Zaporizhzhya region, in Ukraine, a port on the Dnieper River, opposite the island of Khortytsya. The city, founded in 1770 on the site of the Zaporizhzhya Cossack camp, consists of old Zaporizhzhya (called Aleksandrovsk before 19... Read more
John II
John II (John Casimir), 1609-72, king of Poland (1648-68), son of Sigismund III . He was elected to succeed his brother, Ladislaus IV. The turbulent period of his reign is known in Polish history as the Deluge. The uprising of the Cossacks under Chmielnicki , supported by the khan of Crimea, had ... Read more
Kiev
Kiev , Ukrainian Kyyiv, Rus. Kiyev, city (1990 est. pop. 2,600,000) and municipality with the status of a region (oblast), capital of Ukraine and of Kiev region, a port on the Dnieper River. The largest city of Ukraine, Kiev is a leading industrial, commercial, and cultural center. Food processi... Read more
Ukraine
Ukraine , Ukr. Ukraina, republic (2005 est. pop. 47,425,000), 232,046 sq mi (601,000 sq km), E Europe. It borders on Poland in the northwest; on Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova in the southwest; on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in the south; on Russia in the east and northeast; and on ... Read more
Poland
Poland Pol. Polska, officially Republic of Poland, republic (2005 est. pop. 38,635,000), 120,725 sq mi (312,677 sq km), central Europe. It borders on Germany in the west, on the Baltic Sea and the Kaliningrad region of Russia in the north, on Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine in the east, and on th... Read more

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Bogdan Chmielnicki
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Bogdan Chmielnicki The Cossack leader Bogdan Chmielnicki (1595-1657) led the Dnieper Cossacks in the Ukrainian war of liberation against Polish rule in 1648. Bogdan Chmielnicki, or Khmelnitskii, was born in Pereyaslav in the Polish...
Bohdan Chmielnicki
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Bohdan Chmielnicki , c.1595-1657, hetman (leader) of Ukraine. An educated member...war dragged on. As compromise with Poland proved to be impossible, Chmielnicki's objective came to be an independent Ukrainian state; for aid...
Zaporizhzhya
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Zaporizhzhya Cossacks, led by Hetman Bohdan Chmielnicki , began a series of campaigns that eventually...freed Ukraine from Polish domination. Chmielnicki's forces suffered defeat in 1651...treaty unfavorable to Ukraine. In 1654, Chmielnicki persuaded the Cossacks to transfer their...
Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...as a center of the Ukrainian Cossacks. In 1654, Bohdan Chmielnicki and his Cossacks met at Pereyaslavl to agree that Ukraine...Pereyaslavl until 1943, when it was renamed in honor of Chmielnicki. Besides a historical museum, it has remains of the Cathedral...
Bohdan Khmelnytskyy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Bohdan Khmelnytskyy see Chmielnicki, Bohdan .
Tulchin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...industries. Probably founded by Hungarians, it later became a Polish fortress. After the battles between the Poles and Chmielnicki's Cossacks, it was assigned by the Treaty of Zborov (1649) to Ukraine. It reverted to Polish rule in 1654 but passed...
Poltava
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...of a Slavic settlement in the 8th and 9th cent. It became part of Lithuania in 1430. In the 17th cent., under Bohdan Chmielnicki , it was the chief town of a Ukrainian Cossack regiment. Poltava was a flourishing commercial center in the 18th and 19th...
John II
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Ladislaus IV. The turbulent period of his reign is known in Polish history as the Deluge. The uprising of the Cossacks under Chmielnicki , supported by the khan of Crimea, had begun under his predecessor. John II defeated (1651) the allied Cossack, Tatar...
Alexis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the abolition of the Moscow patriarchate in 1721. In 1654 the Cossacks of Ukraine, led in revolt against Poland by Bohdan Chmielnicki , voted for the union of Ukraine with Russia. War with Poland ensued and ended in 1667 with Russia retaining most of Ukraine...
Kiev
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1632, the city became a center of Ukrainian learning and scholarship. In 1648, when the Ukrainian Cossacks under Bohdan Chmielnicki rose against Poland, Kiev became for a brief period the center of a Ukrainian state. After Ukraine's union with Russia...

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On remembering
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 6/24/2005; ; 629 words ; ...marked the culminating pogroms of 1648-9 led by Bogdan Chmielnicki. It is estimated that more than 200,000 Jews were murdered...Jewish world - forget that the Shoah ever occurred. For if Chmielnicki can be forgotten then why not Himmler and Eichmann? The...
Northwestern U. students protest Taco Bell's wages for tomato pickers
News Wire article from: University Wire; 3/1/2004; ; 662 words ; Jacqueline Chmielnicki University Wire 03-01-2004 (Daily Northwestern) (U-WIRE) EVANSTON, Ill. -- At 4 a.m. Friday, six Northwestern...
This week in Jewish history
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 5/28/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...destruction of hundreds of Jewish communities in the pogroms of Chmielnicki, 1650 Day of fasting and mourning declared in Hungary...rabbi and kabbalist, author of Shivrei Luhot, murdered by Chmielnicki Cossacks, 1648 Yahrzeit of R. Yehuda Loeb b. Asher Margolioth...
Yiddish in Istanbul
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 9/7/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...language of religion. In 1648, the Greek Orthodox Bogdan Chmielnicki and the Crimean Tartars rebelled against Poland. Although...Palestine, etc., served by prominent rabbis. In 1650, 300 Chmielnicki survivors were sold by slave traders; many were ransomed...
Food for thought
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 7/30/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...an apartment, which he continues to maintain in Kiev. Ironically, they are located on Chmielnicki Street, the street named after Bogdan Chmielnicki, the 17th century leader of a Cossak uprising against Polish rule in the Ukraine, whose...
Elie Wiesel's liturgical drama.
Magazine article from: Midstream; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Holocaust. Rather, it is set in 1648-49, during the Chmielnicki massacres of the Jews of the Ukraine, in what Jewish history...idea. I would push it back into history--back to the Chmielnicki pogroms of 1648-49. And I turned it into a Purim Shpiel...
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PR Newswire; 1/8/2008; 666 words ; ...markets, servicing 9.25% of U.S. television households. For More Information Monica Chmielnicki (203) 848-2978 CONTACT: Monica Chmielnicki, +1-203-848-2978, for WTNH-TV; WCTX-TV Web site: http://www.wtnh.com...
Translation of Wiesel play to make world debut in Boston: BU Ph.D. candidate chosen as work's translator and director.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA); 11/30/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...published in 1975 and set in post-Stalinist Russia) and "The Trial of God" (published in 1976 and set just after the Chmielnicki pogroms during 1648 and 1649) have been understood to represent the entirety of Wiesel's dramatic oeuvre until now. Kessous...
Researcher sees promise in use of stem cells for brain repair.
Newspaper article from: Pain & Central Nervous System Week; 4/1/2002; 700+ words ; ...medium spiny neurons. These are the cells that are typically lost in Huntington's disease." Goldman and his students Eva Chmielnicki and Amer Samdani then examined whether striatal neuronal production might be further stimulated by the suppression of glial...
The light that failed
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 11/3/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...quaking at the Number of the Beast in its calendar year, the Jewish world had more serious concerns. In 1648-9, the Chmielnicki massacres occurred, killing 100,000 Jews in eastern Europe. And if the Jews of the Ottoman empire were saved from such...