Siege of Zbarazh

Siege of Zbarazh
Part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising

The Zbarazh Castle in the present-day of the Ternopil Oblast in Ukraine
Date10 July — 22 August, 1649
Location
Zbarazh, Volhynian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Result Polish-Lithuanian victory[1]
Belligerents
border=noCossack Hetmanate
Crimean Khanate		 Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Commanders and leaders
border=noBohdan Khmelnytsky
border=no Danylo Nechay
border=no Ivan Bohun (WIA)
border=no Kindrat Burliy (WIA)
border=no Ivan Chornota †
border=noStanislv Morozenko †
border=no Martyn Nebaba
İslâm III Giray		 John II Casimir
Jeremi Wiśniowiecki
Aleksander Koniecpolski
Mikołaj Ostroróg
Andrzej Firlej
Brodowski †
Strength
70,000 Zaporozhian Cossacks[2]
40,000 Crimean Tatars[2]		 10,000–15,000 Polish–Lithuanian infantry and defenders of the castle[3]
Casualties and losses
30,000 killed and wounded[4] 4,000–6,000 killed and wounded[3]
4,000–5,000 captured[3]

The siege of Zbarazh (Ukrainian: Облога Збаража, Битва під Збаражем, Polish: Oblężenie Zbaraża, Bitwa pod Zbarażem; 10 July — 22 August, 1649) was fought near the site of the present-day city of Zbarazh in Ukraine between the Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. The siege lasted for seven weeks.[5]

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s forces was besieged in the Zbarazh Castle until in the aftermath of the Battle of Zboriv on 15–16 August 1649 and the Treaty of Zboriv on 18 August 1649. The Volhynian towns of Zbarazh and Zboriv are neighboring one another roughly.

  1. ^ Koneczny, Feliks (2016). Dzieje Polski (in Polish). p. 259. ISBN 9788382026658.
  2. ^ a b Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Yaroslav Dzyra, “Siege of Zbarazh 1649, Encyclopedia of the history of Ukraine”. 2005.
  3. ^ a b c Jan Widacki, “Kniaż Jarema”. 1984.
  4. ^ ЗБАРАЗЬКА ОБЛОГА 1649 (1649 Siege of Zbarazh). Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine (resource.history.org.ua).
  5. ^ ЗБАРАЗЬКА БИТВА 1649 РОКУ. ДО ПИТАННЯ ІСТОРИЧНОЇ ОЦІНКИ В ХОДІ БОРОТЬБИ ЗА НЕЗАЛЕЖНІСТЬ УКРАЇНИ СЕРЕДИНИ ХVІІ СТОЛІТТЯ. Castles of the Ternopil Region (zamky.te.ua).