What the records say
- When
- 15 Aug 1506
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 53.02° N, 26.70° E
- Description
- 1506 battle of the Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars
Battle of Kletsk
1506 battle of the Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars
The Battle of Kletsk was fought on 5 August 1506 near Kletsk in present-day Belarus between the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army under Michael Glinski, Court Marshal of Lithuania, and the army of the Crimean Khanate under Fetih I Giray and Burnaş I Giray, sons of Meñli I Giray, Khan of Crimea. The battle was the most decisive Lithuanian victory over the Tatars in centuries after the Battle of Blue Waters.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Kletsk: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tatars of the Crimean Khanate”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “6 августа (по другим данным 05) — литовцы победили крымских татар в Клецкой битве”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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