Royiska Sotnia

Royiska Sotnia
Роїська сотня
Active 1659 - 1784
Country Cossack Hetmanate
Type Cossack Sotnia
Garrison/HQ Royishche, Ukraine
Engagements Khmelnytsky Uprising
Russo-Polish War (1654–67)
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Foma Rashenko
Ivan Rashevsky
Mykola Hrembecky
Petro Stefanovych
Yakiv Bakurynsky
Leotij Bakurynsky
Ivan Nehaevsky

The Royiska Sotnia (Company) (Ukrainian: Роїська сотня, Royis’ka 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 village of Royishche, now in the Chernihiv Oblast of north-east Ukraine.

The sotnia was created in 1659 and occupied area almost 593,7 km² (1730) on banks Stryzhen River, right tributary Desna River.[1] On the territory of the sotnia were 32 settlers, as military unit it numbered from 100 to 707 registered Cossacks. The territory of the sotnia bodered by the Horodnyanska Sotnia to the east, Bilouska Sotnia by the south, and Lyubetska Sotnia to the west.

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 sotnyk (sotnia's commander, captain.

List of sotnyks:[3]

References

  1. O.Lyashev. "Royishche - selo, sotenne mistechko". Chernihiv,2002
  2. Storozhenko N.V. Reformy v Malorossii pri grafe Rumaynceve."Kievskaya starina" Magazine, N 3, 1891.
  3. G.Gajecky. "The Cossack Administration of the Hetmanate". Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute,1978.-V.II
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