Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk
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The Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk or the Bender Constitution, formally titled as The Treaties and Resolutions of the Rights and Freedoms of the Zaporozhian Host, is a constitutional document written by
Hetman Pylyp Orlyk
The monument in the Tighina (Bender) Fortress
The first page of the Bender Constitution (Latin-language version, National Archives of Sweden). The tile reads: Latin: Contenta Pactorum inter Ducem et Exercitum Zaporoviensem conventorum, in Compendium brevi Stylo collecta
Full text in Old Ukrainian (pdf)
The Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host was the head of state of the Cossack Hetmanate. The office was abolished by the Russian government in 1764.
Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk
…вольностей Війська Запорозького, romanized: Dohovory i Postanovlennia Prav i volʹnostei Viisʹka Zaporozʹkoho), is a constitutional document written by the Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host, Pylyp Orlyk, the Cossack elders and the Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Host on the 5 April 1710 in the city of Bender (Tighina) in the Principality of…
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Ivan Vyhovsky
Pavlo Teterya