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A confident Tsar Peter, with the Turks …
Years: 1711 - 1711
July
A confident Tsar Peter, with the Turks pressing at the Russian border in 1711, marches with sixty thousand soldiers to invade Moldavia.
A superior Ottoman army under Ahmed’s grand vizier, Baltaji Mehmed Pasha, drives the Russians back to Pruth River, where Peter, who has received no expected aid from Slavs, Moldavians, and Wallachians (with all of whom he has secret alliances) and whose troops are suffering from lack of supplies, enters into peace negotiations.
By the Treaty of the Pruth on July 21, 1711, ...
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- Ottoman Empire
- Sweden, (second) Kingdom of
- Russia, Tsardom of
- Moldavia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of
- Wallachia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of
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Years: 1711 - 1711
July
Locations
People
Groups
- Ottoman Empire
- Sweden, (second) Kingdom of
- Russia, Tsardom of
- Moldavia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of
- Wallachia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of
Topics
Subjects
Regions
Subregions