Regional1695 – 1696 · 1 year
Russian Azov Campaigns
Azov · Black Sea · Ottoman Empire
Estimated casualties
50Ksingle estimate · no range published
Peter the Great launched campaigns to capture Azov from the Ottomans, gaining Russian access to the Black Sea. Though Russia eventually lost Azov, these campaigns demonstrated Russian military capabilities.
Belligerents2
- Russia
- Ottoman Empire
Sources
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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