Battle of the Alta River

Battle of the Alta River
Date	1068
Location	Alta River50°3′0.000″N 31°25′59.999″E / 50.05000000°N 31.43333306°E
Result	Cuman victory
Belligerents
Cuman army	Kievan Rus'
Commanders and leaders
Khan Sharukan [uk]	Grand Prince Iziaslav I of Kiev; Prince Sviatoslav of Chernigov ; Prince Vsevolod of Periaslavl
	class=notpageimage\| Location within Ukraine Battle of the Alta River (European Russia)

The Battle of Alta River was a 1068^[1] clash on the Alta River between Cuman army on the one hand and Kievan Rus' forces of Grand Prince Iziaslav I of Kiev, Prince Sviatoslav of Chernigov, and Prince Vsevolod of Periaslavl on the other in which the Rus' forces were routed and fled back to Kiev and Chernigov in some disarray.^[2] The battle led to an uprising in Kiev that briefly deposed Grand Prince Iziaslav. That incident supposedly shows the power of the Kiev veche and how common people gathering influenced princely politics in Kievan Rus' (particularly in Kiev as well as in the Novgorod the Great).

^ Alta article in Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian)
^ Janet Martin, Medieval Russia 980-1584 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 49.

[1] Alta article in Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian)

[Martin49-2] Janet Martin, Medieval Russia 980-1584 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 49.

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