Lipka rebellion

Lipka rebellion
Part of Polish–Ottoman War (1672–76)

"The Tatar Dance", painting by Juliusz Kossak
Date1672
Location
Podolia
Result

Polish–Lithuanian Victory

  • Lipka Tatars rejoin the Commonwealth
Belligerents
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Lipka Tatars
Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Jan Sobieski Aleksander Kryczyński
Strength
Unknown 2,000 to 3,000

The Lipka rebellion was a mutiny from 1672 of several cavalry chorągwie (regiments) of Lipka Tatars, who had been serving in the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth since the 14th century. The immediate cause of the rebellion was overdue pay, although increasing restrictions on their established privileges and religious freedom also played a role.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ http://zahid.fm.interia.pl/ Archived 2009-06-14 at the Wayback Machine, "Tatarzy Polscy" (Polish Tatars), [1] Archived 2010-06-02 at the Wayback Machine (PDF)
  2. ^ Polska Akademia Nauk (Polish Academy of Sciences), "Tatarzy w Służbie Rzeczypospolitej" (Tatars in the service of the Commonwealth) in "Czasopismo prawno-historyczne", Państwowe Wydawn. Naukowe, 1987, v. 39, pg. 49 [2]
  3. ^ "Bunt Lipków: The Lipka Rebellion of 1672"