Sotnyk
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Sotnyk (Ukrainian: сотник), was a military rank among the Ukrainian Cossack starshyna (officers) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army. A sotnyk was a leader of a military unit (a sotnya) nominally a company of a hundred men). The word is sometimes translated as captain, however the transliteration is also in common usage, for the sake of the historical and social context.
Holders of the rank also served as leaders of territorial units. In the Cossacks' semi-military society of the Zaporozhian Host, Cossack Hetmanate, and Sloboda Ukraine, territories were organized along the lines of military organization and commanded by officers. During the Khmelnytskyi Uprising and in the Cossack Hetmanate, sotnyks were a leaders of territorial subdivisions also called sotnyas. Before 1967[dubious — see talk page], a sotnyk was elected by Cossacks of the sotnya, and then approved by the regimental military council (the starshyna).
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