Raid on Tiahynka

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Raid on Tiahynka
Part of the Cossack raids and Cossack naval campaigns
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Monument to the first battle of Zaporozhian Cossacks
Date1 August 1492
Location
Near Tiahynka, Ottoman Empire (now Ukraine)
Result Cossack victory
Belligerents
Flag of the Zaporizhian Sich.svg Zaporozhian Cossacks Flag of Ottoman Empire (1517-1793).svg Ottoman Empire
Flag of the Crimean Khanate (15th century).svg Crimean Khanate
Commanders and leaders
Flag of the Zaporizhian Sich.svg Bohdan Glynsky Unknown
Strength
Unknown Unknown
Casualties and losses
None 5 captured
1 ship captured
Lots of captives freed

The Raid on Tiahynka [a] was a naval engagement that took place in August of 1492 between the fleet of the Ottoman Empire and the Zaporozhian Cossacks led by Bohdan Glynsky near the fortress of Tiahyn (now the village of Tiahynka, Ukraine) and ended in a Cossack success.

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Background

In 1491, the lands where the Tiagyn castle is located were reconquered by the Crimean Khanate, and the fortress was rebuilt by the Crimean khan Meñli I Giray, and it became one of the outposts from which the Tatars raided Ruthenian lands.[ citation needed ]

Raid

On 1 of August 1492, the Zaporozhian Cossacks led by Bohdan Glynsky set off for a campaign into the Dnieper from Kaniv and Cherkasy. Near Tiagin (Tiahynka) they attacked an Ottoman-Tatar ship. A battle took place, as a result of which, the Cossacks captured the ship and its commander, and his property was confiscated and the slaves on the ship were freed from captivity, [1] then they captured another man and his oxes. [2] Jagiellon's reply to Mengli Giray also mentions that after the attack on the Tatar ship, the Cossacks captured three more people and over a dozen horses in Tiagyn. [3] After a successful attack, Glynsky's Cossacks returned to Ukraine.

Aftermath

Following the attack, Khan Mengli I Geray sent a complaint to the Grand Duke of Lithuania Alexander Jagiellon about the "Circassian actions against the Crimean fleet". [4] On 19 of December, Alexander sent a reply letter to him, where he explained that the attack was carried without his knowledge. [3] Next year, as a revenge for the Tatar raid on Cherkasy, Glynsky attacked and destroyed the fortress in Ochakov. [2] This battle is considered to be the first recorded campaign of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. [1] [b]

Legacy

In 1992, a monument commemorating the first Cossack battle against the Ottoman Empire was installed in the village. [5] [6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Ukrainian: Похід на Тягинку
    Turkish: Tiahynkaya Baskı
    Crimean Tatar: Tiahynka Basqını
  2. ↑ Another campaign that is sometimes named a "Cossack raid", was an attack on the Muscovite convoy near Tavan in 1489 by people of Jerzy Pac, however the perpetrators were not directly named "Cossacks"

References

  1. 1 2 "Не "дике поле". Фортеця Тягинь". localhistory.org.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2025-04-06.
  2. 1 2 "Том VII. Розділ I. Стор. 9. Михайло Грушевський. Історія України-Руси". litopys.org.ua. Retrieved 2025-08-21.
  3. 1 2 "Розділ 1. Віталій Щербак. Українське козацтво: формування соціального стану". litopys.org.ua. Retrieved 2025-08-21.
  4. ↑ Mengli Giray's letter to the Grand Duke of Lithuania Alexander Jagiellon "Your people, the Kievans and Chercassians, came down the Dnieper, attacked our ship near Tiagin, destroyed it, and captured one man. How can we live in brotherhood and friendship now? For if your subjects continue to do this, how can we be in peace and harmony?"
  5. ↑ RDA (2017-10-06). "525 років битви під Тягиню". Бериславська районна державна адміністрація (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2025-04-06.
  6. ↑ "ТЯГИН, МІСЦЕВІСТЬ НА НИЖНЬОМУ ДНІПРІ". resource.history.org.ua. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
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