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has gloss | eng: Sotnyk (; ), was a military rank among the Ukrainian Cossack starshyna (officers), the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, the Ukrainian Galician Army, and the Ukrainian People's Army. A sotnyk was a leader of a military unit (a sotnia), nominally a company of a hundred men. The word is sometimes translated as captain, however the transliteration is also in common usage, for the sake of the historical and social context. |
lexicalization | eng: sotnyk |
instance of | e/Military ranks of Ukraine |
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