Ichnia

Ichnia is an old town of the left-bank Ukrainian countryside, recorded from the fourteenth century. In the later sixteenth century it belonged to Prince Kostiantyn Vyshnevetsky, and its inhabitants joined the Cossack rising led by Bohdan Khmelnytskyi. In 1648–49 Ichnia briefly became the centre of its own regiment. Its Cossacks took part in the siege of Zbarazh in 1649; that year the regiment was absorbed into the Pryluky Regiment as two companies. Ichnia continued as a company town under the Hetmanate, its local offices linking the settlement to the regimental administration.