Russo-Turkish War (1568–1570)
Russo-Turkish War (1568–1570) | |||||||
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Part of the Russo-Turkish Wars | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Russia | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Ivan the Terrible Pyotr Serebrianyi |
Selim II Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mustafa Pasha Devlet I Giray | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
30,000 troops |
20,000 troops 30,000–50,000 troops | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Unknown |
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The Russo-Turkish War (1568–1570) or Don-Volga-Astrakhan campaign of 1569[3] (referred to in Ottoman sources as the Astrakhan Expedition) was a war between the Tsardom of Russia and the Ottoman Empire over the Astrakhan Khanate. It was the first of twelve Russo-Turkish wars ending with World War I in 1914-18.
In 1556, the Astrakhan Khanate was conquered by Ivan the Terrible, who had a new fortress built on a steep hill overlooking the Volga.[4]
In 1568, the
In the summer of 1569 in response to Russia's interference in Ottoman commercial and religious pilgrimages, the Ottoman Empire sent a large force under Mustafa Pasha of 20,000 Turks and 50,000
In 1572 was the battle of Molodi in which the Ottomans dispatched another large force to support the Crimean Khanate however they were defeated.
References
- ^ Janet Martin, Medieval Russia: 980-1584, (Cambridge University Press, 1996), 356.
- ^ Садиков П. А. Поход татар и турок на Астрахань в 1569 г. // «Исторические записки». — М., 1947. — Т. 22.
- ^ DeVries, Kelly Robert (2014-05-01). "The European tributary states of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries". Choice. 51 (9).
- ^ Martin 1996, p. 354.
- ^ a b Martin 1996, p. 356-357.
Sources
- Attila Weiszhár and Balázs Weiszhár: Lexicon of Wars, Atheneaum publisher, Budapest 2004.
- Martin, Janet (1996). Medieval Russia:980-1584. Cambridge University Press.