What the records say
- When
- 1 Apr 1241
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 50.61° N, 20.75° E
- Description
- 1241 Mongol invasion of Poland
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Battle of Chmielnik
1241 battle of the first Mongol invasion of Poland
The Battle of Chmielnik was fought on 18 March 1241 near Chmielnik, between Kraków and Kielce during the first Mongol invasion of Poland. A Mongol force under Baidar defeated a combined Polish army drawn from the Kraków and Sandomierz provinces, commanded by Voivode Włodzimierz of Cracow and other nobles. The destruction of the Polish army left the road to Kraków open.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Chmielnik (Mongol invasion of Poland): The Mongols overwhelm the feudal Polish armies of Sandomierz and Kraków provinces”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “フミェルニクの戦い - モンゴル帝国遠征軍バトゥ配下のバイダル率いる分隊と、ポーランド王国の間で行なわれた戦い。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page