Myrhorod

Myrhorod stands on the Khorol River in left-bank Ukraine. Its early origins are uncertain: accounts place a fort here in the twelfth or thirteenth century, while the town is documented in the sixteenth century. It belonged to the Kyiv Voivodeship under Lithuania and later the Polish Crown.

The town became a centre of the Myrhorod Cossack regiment. Its Cossacks took part in the uprising of 1638 led by Yakiv Ostrianytsia and in Bohdan Khmelnytsky's uprising beginning in 1648. Myrhorod's place in the Cossack Hetmanate connected this river town to the changing political and military order of the Ukrainian lands.