Vinnytsia Regiment
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| Kalnyk Regiment Кальницький полк Vinnytsia Regiment Вінницький полк | |
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| Active | 1648–1712 |
| Country | Cossack Hetmanate |
| Type | Cossack Regiment |
| Size | 19 sotnias, 2050 Cossacks (1649)[1] |
| Garrison/HQ | Kalnyk (later Vinnytsia, Podolia |
| Engagements | Khmelnytsky Uprising Polish–Cossack–Tatar War Pruth War |
| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders | Ivan Bohun Ivan Sirko |
| Kalnyk Regiment | |||||||||
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| Regiment of Cossack Hetmanate | |||||||||
| 1648–1712 | |||||||||
Coat of arms
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 The Kalnyk Regiment (red) in the Cossack Hetmanate in 1660 | |||||||||
| Capital | Kalnyk, later Vinnytsia | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| 1648 | |||||||||
| 1712 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | Ukraine | ||||||||
Vinnytsia Regiment (Ukrainian: Вінницький полк), originally known as Kalnyk Regiment (Ukrainian: Кальницький полк), was an administrative division of the Cossack Hetmanate. Its administrative headquarters was initially based in Kalnyk (modern-day Vinnytsia Oblast), but later transferred to Vinnytsia.
