Battle

Battle of Zhvanets

Sep 1653 – 15 Dec 1653 · 48.55° N, 26.48° E

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When
Sep 1653 – 15 Dec 1653
Kind
Battle
Coordinates
48.55° N, 26.48° E
Description
1653 battle

Siege of Zhvanets

1653 battle

The siege of Zhvanets was fought between the Cossack Hetmanate, Crimean Khanate and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a part of the Khmelnytskyi Uprising. Near the site of the present-day village of Zhvanets on the Dniester River in Ukraine, forces of Zaporozhian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars under the command of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Ivan Bohun and İslâm III Giray besieged a Polish–Lithuanian force under the comman…

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