The Treaty of Bila Tserkva was a peace treaty between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ukrainian Cossacks in the aftermath of the Battle of Bila Tserkva. It was signed by Mikołaj Potocki and Bohdan Khmelnytsky at Bila Tserkva on September 28, 1651.
According to the concluded agreement, the number of Registered Cossacks was reduced from 40,000 (the Treaty of Zboriv) to 20,000 and their residence restricted to the area of the Kiev Voivodeship. Additionally, the Brastlav and Chernihiv palatinates were given back to Polish governmental administrators, and the noblemen were permitted to return to their properties.
The treaty was blocked by a single vote, the Liberum Veto, and thus never ratified by the Polish diet. Nevertheless, Khmelnytsky decided to fulfill its provisions and even ordered a Cossack detachment to pacify a peasant uprising against returning nobles in the Kiev palatinate.[1]
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- ^ P. R. Magocsi. A history of Ukraine. University of Toronto Press. 1996. p. 205
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