General Military Chancellery

The General Military Chancellery (Ukrainian: Генеральна військова канцелярія, romanized: Heneraljna vijsjkova kanceljarija) was the highest administrative institution of the Cossack Hetmanate in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was the central governing body responsible for communications, document flow, administrative work, and document storage. It was an important element of state administration in the Ukrainian Hetmanate, as the functioning of the entire state administration system depended on it.

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