What the heck is a "pan"?
I've been reading some 17th-century Ukrainian Cossack folklore, and it's all about how "we gloriously followed our Hetman Chmelnitsky and slaughtered many and sundry evil Polish Pans and Jews with our mighty Cossack hearts." It reads kind of like an anti-Semitic version of the Iliad.
Anyway, what exactly was a Pan? Were they nobles or government tax collectors or what?
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