 Together, Orlyk, Mazepa, and their Cossack forces retreated to the city of Bendery, in Bessarabia (now Moldova, then part of the Ottoman Empire).The Zaporizhian Cossack Army also settled in this area.When Mazepa died on 5 April 1710, Pylyp Orlyk was elected as the Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host.