Dmytro Hunia
Dmytro Hunia (Polish: Dimitr Hunia) was one of the leaders of a 1638 uprising of some of the Cossacks against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The rebellion was sparked by the Sejm act of the same year that declared that non-Registered Cossacks are equal to ordinary peasants in their rights (and should be subjected to serfdom). The uprising was quelled by the forces of Jeremi Wiśniowiecki and Mikołaj Potocki. After a series of skirmishes the Cossacks capitulated at the Starzec river. Hunia and some other cossacks could flee to Russia.
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