Russo-Turkish War (1686-1700)
The Russo-Turkish War (1686–1700) was part of the war of various European states against the Ottoman Empire, known as the Great Turkish War, and conceptually summarizes Russia's war efforts . Four campaigns are added to this.
It is an early conflict in a long line of Russian-Turkish wars .
prehistory
At the end of the 17th century, the Russian Empire was fighting for strategically important accesses to the Baltic and Black Seas. By solving these tasks, favorable conditions for the development of economic ties between Russia and other countries via shipping routes and the security of the state should be ensured. These interests were threatened by the Crimean Tatars and the Ottoman Empire in the south and the Swedes in the north of the country. Tsar Peter the Great directed his efforts in this period to the solution of the problems on the southern imperial borders, since Russia in 1686 with Poland-Lithuania , through the conclusion of the treaty of the " Eternal Peace ", as well as with Austria and the Republic of Venice in the Holy League against the Turks was connected. After the Crimean campaigns of 1687/89 were unsuccessful, the Ottoman city of Azov with its fortress was chosen as a new destination .
The war
The first of the two Crimean campaigns against the Ottoman vassal state of the Crimean Khanate began in 1687 . It was as unsuccessful as the second move in 1689.
In the years 1695–96 the Azov campaigns against the Azov, which belonged to the Ottoman Empire (Russian: Азо́вские похо́ды) followed. In the first successful battle of his reign, Peter I captured the Azov fortress in 1696.
Peace treaty
After a two-year armistice was agreed in the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699, the Treaty of Constantinople (1700) ended the war and confirmed the Russian conquest of Azov, Taganrog also fell to Russia.
After that
In the larger context of the Great Northern War , the Ottoman Empire attacked Russia in the Russo-Turkish War (1710–1711) again in 1710 and was able to defeat the Russian troops under Boris Petrovich Sheremetev on the Prut River . Azov fell back to the Turks in 1712 and Taganrog was largely destroyed.
It was not until 1769 - during the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) - that Azov finally became Russian and Taganrog was rebuilt.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russo-Turkish war is not a fixed term in literature for the period described .
- ↑ Collective of authors under the direction of KzS NW Novikow: Боевая летопись русского флота: Хроника важнейших событий военной IX огории русск ог . по 1917 г. Воениздат, Moscow 1948 ( online [accessed May 5, 2014]).
- ↑ Klaus Kreiser: Der Ottmanische Staat, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2008, p. 31
- ↑ Heinz Setzer: Taganrog, the “Pearl of the Russian South” at a glance. (No longer available online.) German Chekhov Society, archived from the original on May 3, 2014 ; Retrieved May 5, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
