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What does hetman mean?

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Noun
  1. (historical) A Cossack headman or general.
  2. Title used by the second-highest military commander in Poland and Lithuania (15th to 18th century).
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As soon as the austro-german troops have withdrawn, the government of hetman Skoropadsky runs away and provokes the fall of his regime.
In 1648, led by the kozak hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainians rose against Poland, forming an independent state.
They say there was a whole band of them, and that this bearded man was their elder, the hetman.
Two hundred years ago King Karl XII of Sweden fought together with the Cossack hetman Ivan Mazepa for the independence of Ukraine from Russia.
The douma invited the hetman to occupy the kremlin with his shoulders.
I was a hetman among the Free Companions before I rode southward.

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