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Turkish-Tatar Invasion of Central Ukraine
- When
- January 1769
- Where
- Central Ukraine
- Part of
- Russian Capture of Chocim
In January 1769, a seventy-thousand-man Turkish-Tatar army under Crimean Khan Qırım Giray invaded central Ukraine.
In January 1769, a Turkish-Tatar army of roughly seventy thousand men, led by Crimean Khan Qırım Giray, invaded the lands of central Ukraine. This invasion formed part of the Ottoman Empire's opening moves in the war that had begun in 1768, and it preceded the Russian operations that culminated in the capture of Chocim later that year.
Sources
- Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-25
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