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This is a list of Crimean-Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe.
Name | Date | Location | Perpetrators | Casualties | Notes |
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Siege of Kiev (1416) | June 1416 | Kiev and other cities of the Kiev region | ![]() |
Attackers led by Edigu plundered Kiev, but did not take Kiev Castle .[1] | |
First Tatar raid on Ukraine | 1447 | Ukraine | ![]() |
the Hustyn Chronicle of 1447 reports the beginning of destructive attacks by Crimean Tatars on Ukraine.[2][3] | |
Tatar raid on Ukraine | 1471 | Ukraine | ![]() |
The destructive Tatar attack on Ukraine[2][dead link]. | |
Tatar raid on Ukraine | 1479 | Ukraine | ![]() |
The destructive Tatar attack on Ukraine[2][dead link]. | |
Tatar raid on Podolia | 1480 | Podolia | ![]() |
Mengli I Giray ravages Podolia.[4] | |
Siege of Kiev (1482) | 1 September 1482 | Kiev | ![]() |
Most were taken prisoner | Tatars led by the Crimean khan Mengli I Giray attacked the Kiev region at the request of Moscow 's Ivan III. The attackers captured Kiev and the city castle. Kiev voivode Ivan Chodkiewicz and his family were taken prisoner.[5] |
Tatar raid on Kiev and Podolia | 1487 | Kiev, Podolia | ![]() |
Attack by a 5,000-strong Tatar army on the Kiev and Podolia. In September, King John I Albert defeated them in the Battle of Kopystrzyn. One and a half thousand attackers were killed in the battle, and many Tatars were taken prisoner. | |
Fire of Kiev | 1489 | Kiev | ![]() |
many houses burned down | a 100,000-strong Tatar army marches into Podolia and Kiev. Kiev is stormed and burned.[6] |
Tatar raid on Podolia, Galicia and Volhynia | 1490–1491 | Podolia, Eastern Galicia, Volhynia | ![]() |
many prisoners | the campaign of the Crimean and Nogai Tatars in Podolia, Galicia and Volhynia. Volodymyr and other Volhynian towns were burned. A large number of prisoners(yasyr) were taken. On 25 January 1491, the Polish-Lithuanian army under the command of Lwów castellan Mikołaj Chodecki and Luck starosta Semyon Olshanski defeated a 9,000-strong Tatar detachment returning with booty near Zasław, on the Goryn River, and liberated the prisoners. |
Tatar raid on Kiev and Czernihów | 1493 | Kiev, Czernihów | ![]() |
Attack of the Tatars under the leadership of Khan Mengli I Giray on Kiev and Czernihów.[6] | |
Tatar raid on Podolia and Volhynia | 1494 | Podolia, Volhynia | ![]() |
Many prisoners taken | Tatars attacked Podolia and Volhynia. Many prisoners were taken. The Polish-Lithuanian army pursuing the attackers was defeated in the Battle of Wyszniowiec.[7] |
Tatar raid on Volhynia | 1495 | Volhynia | ![]() |
Tatars attacked Volhynia under the leadership of Mengli I Khan's son Giray. The Lithuanian army under the leadership of the Luck starosta Semyon Olshanski defeated some of the attackers who besieged the city of Koreс. In retaliation, the Tatars launched a second campaign in Volhynia under the command of the khan's sons. Golshansky, together with the governor of Volodymyr, Wasyl Hreptowicz, and Michał and Kostantin Ostrogski, held the defence in Rivne Castle. The Tatars laid siege to the city of Rivne, but failed to capture the castle. | |
Ottoman-Tatar raid on Galicia | 22 April 1498 | Eastern Galicia | ![]() ![]() |
22 April: the first and extremely devastating attack by Tatars and Turks on Galicia.[8][9] |
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