Regional1656

Battle of Riga

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

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Riga (1656), part of the Russo-Swedish Wars. Sweden defeated Russia.

Belligerents2

Sweden
Russia

ON THE MAPSwedish EmpireRussia (Tsardom, later Empire)

Conflict graph

PART OFRusso-Swedish War (1656–1658)

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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Cite as: Battle of Riga (1656). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-riga-1656 · Sources & methodology