Regional1579

Battle of Polotsk

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Belarus

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Polotsk (1579), part of the Livonian War. Poland defeated Russia.

Belligerents2

Poland
Russia

ON THE MAPPoland-LithuaniaRussia (Tsardom, later Empire)

Conflict graph

PART OFLivonian War

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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