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HETMAN (a See also:Polish word, probably derived from the Ger.
Hauptrnann, See also:head-See also:man or See also:captain; the See also:Russian See also:form is ataman), a military See also:title formerly in use in See also:Poland; the Hetman Wielki, or See also:Great Hetman, was the See also:chief of the armed forces of the nation, and commanded in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, except when the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king was See also:present in See also:person. The See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office was abolished in 1792. From Poland the word was introduced into See also:Russia, in the form ataman, and was adopted by the See also:Cossacks, as a title for their head, who was practically an See also:independent See also:prince, when under the See also:suzerainty of Poland. After the See also:acceptance of Russian See also:rule
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by the Cossacks in 1654, the See also:post was shorn of its See also:power. The title of "ataman " or "hetman of all the Cossacks " is held by the Cesarevitch. " Ataman " or " hetman " is also the name of the elected See also:elder of the stanitsa, the unit of Cossack See also:administration.
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