Battle of Zhvanets

Name: Battle of Zhvanets
Start: 1653

1653 CE.

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The siege of Zhvanets (Ukrainian: Облога Жванця, Polish: Oblężenie Żwańca; September – 15 December 1653) 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 command of John II Casimir.

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