Muha Rebellion
| Muha Rebellion | |||||||
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 Map of the historial region of Pokuttia in modern-day Ukraine | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Kingdom of Poland | Muha's Army | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Casimir IV Jagiellon | Petru Muha † | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Unknown | Total: 10,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | Nearly all army destroyed | ||||||
The Muha Rebellion started in 1490 in Galicia, and was led by Petru Muha. Its purpose was overthrowing Polish control of Galicia.[1][2][3]
Muha started the revolt in Pokuttia in 1490. It quickly spread to neighboring territories, across nearly all southeastern Galicia. Muha, supported by the Moldavian voivode Stephen the Great, marched to Lviv with an army of 10,000 people.[4][2][1]
The rebel army was composed of both Ukrainian and Moldavian peasants from places like Bukovina. In the army there were also Orthodox petty gentry noblemen originally from Pokuttia, as well as burghers (mischany / mistychi).[4][2]
The ten-thousand-man army led by Muha conquered the fortified cities of Kolomyia, Sniatyn, and Halych, killing a considerable number of enemy noblemen and burghers as they went.[4]
As the army was advancing to Lviv, it was blocked by a combined force of Polish Royal Army soldiers, a levée en masse of Galician magnates, and Prussian mercenaries. At the Battle of Rohatyn, near Rohatyn, present-day Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, the army suffered a crushing defeat and most of the rebels were killed. However, Muha survived, and fled back to Moldavia with the other survivors.[4]
Muha returned to Galicia in 1492, in an unsuccessful attempt to stir up another rebellion. He was captured in the area of Kolomyia, and reportedly died in a prison in Kraków.[4]
References
- ^ a b Paul R. Magocsi (2010). A History of Ukraine The Land and Its Peoples. University of Toronto Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-1-4426-1021-7.
- ^ a b c Ivan Katchanovski; Zenon E. Kohut; Bohdan Y. Nebesio; Myroslav Yurkevich (2013). Historical Dictionary of Ukraine. Scarecrow Press. pp. 64–66. ISBN 978-0-8108-7847-1.
- ^ Krystian Heffner, Marek Sobczyński, ed. (2009). Historical Regions Divided by the Borders: Cultural heritage and multicultural cities. University of Łódź, Department of Political Geography and Regional Studies. p. 147. ISBN 978-83-7126-252-4.
- ^ a b c d e "Mukha Rebellion". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
