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Third Russo-Turkish War (subset of the Great Turkish War) 1686–1700 Habsburg, Polish-Lithuanian, Russian, and Venetian victory [55] Treaty of Karlowitz and Treaty of Constantinople: Russia gains possession of Azov and the fortresses of Taganrog, Pavlovsk, and Mius [55] 4 Fourth Russo-Turkish War (subset of the Great Northern War) 1710–1711
The remaining 20,000 men of Ahmed Pasha's army remained at the Turkish field camp on the right bank near Rusçuk where they guarded the munitions and supplies. On the night of 1 October 1811, however, a Russian detachment of 7,500 men secretly crossed the Danube. In the morning the Russians overwhelmed the Turkish troops in a surprise attack.
While there were only 4,595 males or 9,190 male and female Jews in the five vilayets to form the future Principality of Bulgaria – Rusçuk, Vidin, Sofia, Tirnova, and Varna – according to the pre-war Ottoman salname of 1875 (0.4% of the population), the 1880 Bulgarian census indicated a total of 14,342 Jews, who accounted for 0.7% of the ...
The Russo-Turkish War of 1672–1681, a war between the Tsardom of Russia and Ottoman Empire, caused by Turkish expansionism in the second half of the 17th century. Is the largest and one of the most important series of military campaigns before the Great Turkish War .
The Russo-Turkish war of 1768–1774 was a major armed conflict that saw Russian arms largely victorious against the Ottoman Empire. Russia's victory brought the Yedisan between the rivers Bug and Dnieper , and Crimea into the Russian sphere of influence .
العربية; Azərbaycanca; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Bosanski; Català
1,300 killed and wounded [1] 5,000 killed and wounded, 2,000 captured [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 1 ] The Battle of Plovdiv , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] or Battle of Philippopolis , [ 6 ] was one of the final battles of the 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish War .
The Russians, led by Hans Karl von Diebitsch (German-born general serving the Russian Empire), marched against the Ottomans led by Grand Vizier Reşid Mehmed Pasha [2] (Georgian-born general enslaved as a child by the Ottomans) with the objective of relieving Silistria, 40 miles (64 km) west of the village of Kulevicha.