| Battle of Shelon River | |||||||
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| Part of the Muscovite-Novgorodian wars | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Novgorod Republic | Grand Principality of Moscow | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Dmitry Isakevich Boretsky | Daniil Kholmsky | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| c. 30,000 | 5,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| c. 15,000 killed, 2,000 captured | unknown | ||||||
The Battle of Shelon (Russian: Шелонская битва, romanized: Shelonskaya bitva) was a decisive battle between the forces of the Grand Principality of Moscow under Ivan III (r. 1462–1505) and the army of the Novgorod Republic, which took place on the Shelon River on 14 July 1471. Novgorod suffered a major defeat and ended with the de facto unconditional surrender of the city. Novgorod was absorbed by Muscovy in 1478.