Hryhory Loboda (born in the Kiev

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Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

 region — died May 1596), was a Kosh Otaman of the Zaporizhian Host (1593–6, with interruptions) of Romanian

Romanians

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 descent. In 1594 and 1595 he and Severyn Nalyvaiko

Severyn Nalyvaiko

Severyn Nalyvaiko was a leader of the Ukrainian Cossacks who became a hero of Ukrainian folklore. He led the Nalyvaiko Uprising. The Decembrist poet Kondraty Ryleyev wrote a poem about him.-Biography:...

 took part in the anti-Turkish campaign in Moldavia

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 as allies of Rudolf II

Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor

Rudolf II was Holy Roman Emperor , King of Hungary and Croatia , King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria...

. During the Cossack rebellion of 1596

Nalyvaiko Uprising

The Nalyvaiko Uprising was a failed Cossack rebellion against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Headed by Severyn Nalyvaiko, it lasted from 1594 to 1596...

, Loboda and Nalyvaiko raided the Kijów Voivodeship

Kijów Voivodeship

The Kiev Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1471 until 1569 and of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1569 until 1793 as part of Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown....

 neighboring territory which is now Belarus

Belarus

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. Loboda was assassinated by Nalyvaiko's supporters during the Battle of Solonytsia, under suspicion of attempting to come to terms with Stanisław Żółkiewski, crown hetman of the Poles.