The Union of Lublin establishes the Polish–Lithuanian…

1564 CE to 1575 CE

The Union of Lublin establishes the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1569 and much Ukrainian territory is transferred from Lithuania to the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, becoming Polish territory de jure.

Under the demographic, cultural and political pressure of Polonization, which had begun in the late fourteenth century, many landed gentry of Polish Ruthenia (another name for the land of Rus) convert to Catholicism and become indistinguishable from the Polish nobility.

Deprived of native protectors among Rus nobility, the commoners (peasants and townspeople) begin turning for protection to the emerging Zaporozhian Cossacks, who by the seventeenth century become devoutly Orthodox.

The Cossacks do not shy from taking up arms against those they perceive as enemies, including the Polish state and its local representatives.

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Zaporozh'ye > Zaporozje Zaporiz'ka Oblast Ukraine View →

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Lithuanians (Eastern Balts) View → Poles (West Slavs) View → Christians, Roman Catholic View → Christians, Eastern Orthodox View → Christians, Eastern Catholic (Uniate) View → Ukrainians (East Slavs) View → Russians (East Slavs) View → Poland of the Jagiellonians, Kingdom of View → Lithuania, Grand Duchy of View → Podolian Voivodeship View → Cossacks, Zaporozhian View → Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Commonwealth of the Two Nations) View → Cossack Hetmanate of the Zaporozhian Host View →

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