Khmelnytskyi

  1. Proper noun.  A city on the Dnieper in Ukraine, administrative centre of Dnipropetrovsk province (''oblast'').
  2. Proper noun.  Khmelnytskyi province (''oblast''), in south-eastern Ukraine.
  3. Proper noun.  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.

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