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Battle of Lake Peipus

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Estonia

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Lake Peipus (1242), part of the Rise of Russia. Novgorod defeated German Knights of the Sword Brethern, Denmark.

Belligerents3

Novgorod
German Knights of the Sword Brethern
Denmark

ON THE MAPNovgorod Republic

Conflict graph

PART OFNorthern Crusades

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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