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131: 32: 359: 643: 274:, 'brigand', and that might have led to the initial meaning of 'to chase, to pursue' evolving to mean 'chaser, pursuer', and finally 'insurgent'. In different other languages the meaning of 'brigand' given to hajdamak(a) took shape in accordance to the way their enemies saw the 583:
rebellion. This final chapter of Haydamaka history was unique in large part due to the support the rebellion enjoyed not only among the peasantry, but also among the Poles and the Jews marginalized and rendered destitute by the Russian Empire.
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gained the throne of Poland-Lithuania in 1734, the Russian military suppressed the insurrection. Small raids by haidamakas against Polish nobility continued in the following years under the leadership of
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became a pejorative label for Ukrainians as a whole. However, Ukrainian folklore and literature generally (with some notable exceptions) treat the actions of the haidamaks positively.
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used to spur someone on: 'hayda!'. Depending on the local context, it was understood to mean 'driving someone or something away', and later 'to chase, to pursue'. In the
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Turkish verbs have the ending -mak or -mek. The ending -ak(a) however also exists in Ukrainian, in words with meanings somewhat related to each other, such as
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A horror story from the Cossack Hetmanate: The crimes and execution of Pavlo Matsapura’s gang that inspired an 18th-century word for villain
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in left-bank Ukraine as well. The latter raids occasionally deteriorated to common robbery and murder, for example in the so-called
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paramilitary outfits composed of commoners (peasants, craftsmen), and impoverished noblemen in the eastern part of the
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In 1750 another uprising occurred as the haidamakas continued to receive popular sympathy. Based in the lands of the
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has two related meanings: either 'Ukrainian insurgent against the Poles in the 18th century', or '
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In Ottoman Turkish, haydamak used to mean "a cattle-lifter, marauder", and in modern
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word 'haydamak', 'to drive, to drive away', the etymological vehicle being the
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The last flare-up of the Haydamak violence occurred in 1830s, during the
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18th-century Ukrainian paramilitary outfits made up of commoners
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and the neighbouring region, where it has been used in some
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hang a Jew by his heels. Ukrainian folk art, 19th century
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The first uprising came in the war for control of the
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The haidamak movement consisted mostly of local free
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