Khmelnytskyi
Meaning
Proper Noun
- A city on the Dnieper in Ukraine, administrative centre of Dnipropetrovsk province (oblast).
- Khmelnytskyi province (oblast), in south-eastern Ukraine.
- Bohdan Khmelnytsky (c. 1595–1657), a Ukrainian Cossack hetman who led an uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and signed the Treaty of Pereyaslav with Czar Alexis I of Russia.
Related
Similar words
- Proskuriv, Proskurov
- Khmelnytskyi Oblast
- Proskuriv Oblast
Origin
- From Ukrainian Хмельни́цький, after the Ukrainian Cossack Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Derived from хміль.
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