The Lubny Regiment was one of ten territorial-administrative subdivisions of the Cossack Hetmanate

Cossack Hetmanate

The Hetmanate or Zaporizhian Host was the Ruthenian Cossack state in the Central Ukraine between 1649 and 1782.The Hetmanate was founded by first Ukrainian hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky during the Khmelnytsky Uprising . In 1654 it pledged its allegiance to Muscovy during the Council of Pereyaslav,...

. The regiment's capital was the city of Lubny

Lubny

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, now in Poltava Oblast

Poltava Oblast

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 of central Ukraine

Ukraine

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. Other major cities of the regiment were Pyriatyn

Pyriatyn

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, Hlynsk and Romny

Romny

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.

The Lubny Regiment was founded in 1649, and was combined with the Myrhorod

Myrhorod

Myrhorod or Mirgorod is a city in the Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Myrhorodskyi Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast, and is located on the river Khorol.-History:The town was founded either in the 12th...

 Regiment in 1658. During combination, 7 sotnias from the Myrhorod Regiment, 4 from the Kropyvniansky Regiment, and 2 from the Poltava

Poltava

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 Regiment were added into the Lubny Regiment. After reformation, the regiment consisted of a total of 13 sotnias, and later on in the 18th century — of 23 sotnias.

According to documents of 1723, the regiment consisted of 2,687 land cossack

Cossack

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s, and 3,968 horseback cossacks. In 1781, the regiment was officially abolished, and its territory was reformed into the Kiev

Kiev

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 and Chernihiv

Chernihiv

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 Namestniks.